Memory Babe : A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac
Item
Title
Memory Babe : A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac
Creator
Nicosia, Gerald
Description
Biography of Lowell, Massachusetts native, poet, and author, Jack Kerouac, widely known as a founding participant in the 20th century USA literary culture that came to be called the "Beat Movement," or the "Beat Generation." Kerouac's life from birth to early death; from Lowell, to New York, to San Francisco, to Denver, to Tampa and St. Petersburg, and back again. The cultural, interpersonal, and geographic contexts for his poetry and writings of autobiographical fiction. Anecdotes and aspects of his public and private lives, and where these lives changed and converged. Well-known for the biographer's extensive use of archival materials and interviews with Kerouac's contemporaries.
Publisher
Grove Press
Date
1983-00-00
Language
en
Type
Book
Identifier
Coverage
20th century
Lowell, Massachusetts
United States
ISBN
0394522702
9780394522708
Number of Pages
767
Place of Publication
New York, New York