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 — Jack Kerouac’s gravesite got a new touch of life on Tuesday with the installment of a new monument marking the final resting place for the Beat generation author of On the Road. The memorial ...

T-shirts are the latest addition to the Jack Kerouac canon. Better known for his many works of prose and poetry, the Beat ...

The Grove Street Neighborhood celebrates the 27th ANNIVERSARY of the GROVE STREET FESTIVAL beginning on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 ...

Fifty years after the publication of Jack Kerouac’s Beat novel “On the Road,” a new dispute has erupted around the famously peripatetic writer. The author of a noted Kerouac biography, “Memory Babe,” ...

Unpublished in North America for nearly 70 years, Kerouac’s first novel, written when he was 21, offers a tantalizing glimpse of the themes and characters that were to become his obsessions. During ...

Jan Kerouac’s 1981 novel “Baby Driver” chronicles a fearless and windblown life entirely distinct from her famous parent’s.

fakes his death and goes on a journey of epic self-discovery. When I was in college, Kerouac was my hero and inspiration. I actually wrote a very bad unpublished novel on a roll of Teletype paper ...

Jack Kerouac is big business; in 2010, one biographer estimated the value of his estate at $30 million. So Kerouac-iana can create a stir, especially previously unknown documents directly related to ...

People don’t associate Jack Kerouac with Long Island. The latter, in the postwar era, became the symbol of suburbia. Kerouac’s 1956 novel, On The Road, on the other hand, became the voice of postwar ...

The beat is getting louder in Hollywood. Jack Kerouac, the prolific writer and Beat Generation pioneer, is at the center of three upcoming movies, including the film version of his famous 1957 novel.