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  Memory Babe : A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac

  Author: Nicosia, Gerald

  Date: 1983-00-00

  Publication: Grove Press

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 9392871

  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.

  Tags Alcohol and Drugs, Criticism and Review, Death and Disaster, Denver CO, Family, Fiction and Literature, Lowell MA, Nashua NH, New York NY, Northport NY, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, San Francisco CA, St. Petersburg FL, Travel and Movement, Youth
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  Selected Letters , 1957-1969

  Author: Kerouac, Jack

  Date: 1999-00-00

  Publication: Viking Penguin

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 40698633

  Collection of selected correspondence between writer Jack Kerouac and friends, other literary figures, and some family from 1957 to the author's death in 1969. Includes letters to William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Sterling Lord; Robert Giroux; and many others. References to publications, writings, travels, etc. Letters presented chronologically, annotated, and linked with editor commentary. Includes biographical chronology and editor introduction.

  Tags Algeria, Berkeley CA, Fiction and Literature, Hyannis MA, Literary Works -- Other, Lowell MA, New York NY, Northport (N.Y.), Orlando (Fla.), Personal History: Biography and Oral History, St. Petersburg FL, Travel and Movement

• The Art of Fiction, No. 41

  Author: Kerouac, Jack (interviewee)

  Date: 1968 summer

  Language : en

  Source : Full text (The Paris Review)

  Find in a library: 1641889

  Transcript of 1968 interview with writer Jack Kerouac in his Florida home, shortly before his death in 1969. Conducted by three visitors - principally, poet Ted Berrigan - and with the participation of Jack's wife, Stella Kerouac. Part of a Paris Review series of author interviews, and featured in a Paris Review published anthology of other interviews with literary figures, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 4th series (1976), edited by George Plimpton. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2659470

  Tags Criticism and Review, Family, Fiction and Literature, Interview, Literary Works -- Other, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, St. Petersburg FL