Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Intrepid explorers will swear by these Jack Kerouac travel quotes. Jack Kerouac is best known for his novel "On the Road," a work ...

Jack Kerouac's ex-girlfriend, the author Joyce Johnson, tells PEOPLE that the intense public reaction to Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road made him feel he "was under a tremendous attack all the time" ...

LOWELL, Massachusetts­ — Jack Kerouac, the man who unwillingly named a generational sensibility and wrote an American classic, died on Tuesday, October 21. He was buried here on Friday, October 24, ...

The myth is that the strangeness of On the Road comes from an off-the-cuff American style of “automatic writing.” But was it in fact written slowly and methodically? Lauren Du Graf talks to Kerouac ...

"Kerouac wanted to get out and experience something bigger..." "With all the savage irresponsibility that that comes with." Freestyle Releasing has debuted the trailer for a documentary titled Kerouac ...

Author Jack Kerouac (inset) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, 100 years ago this month. Denis Tangney Jr, via Getty Images Here’s a reason to get on the road. It was 100 years ago this week that Beat ...

Allen Ginsberg, "Jack Kerouac holding William S. Burroughs’ Cat, Vila Muneria, Tangiers" (1957) (all images courtesy the Jacob Loewentheil Jack Kerouac Collection) Reading Jack Kerouac’s accounts of ...

Jack Kerouac would have turned 100 this year on March 12. Kerouac's classic 1957 novel "On The Road" was loosely based on his travels with friends across the U.S. The book continues to inspire ...

Filmmaker Ebs Burnough's new documentary 'Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation' is in theaters now Tommy McArdle is a Writer-Reporter on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He joined the brand in 2022. Jack ...

Certain written works notoriously avoid being turned into successful films: “War and Peace,” “Gravity’s Rainbow,” basically anything by William Faulkner (exempting the screenplay he wrote for “The Big ...

I have a distinct memory of flipping through the pages of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) when I was around 16 years old. I was on the metro in Paris. I had heard about Kerouac from my sister and ...

It’s hard to believe that Jack Kerouac has been gone nearly a half century. In fact, this year marks a sad milestone: He has now been dead longer than he was alive. Yet Lowell’s favorite son remains a ...