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One of the most famous road trips in American lit began in 1947 when he rode the bus with crying babies from New York to Chicago |
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In his 1958 essay "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose", he compared a writing technique to a jazz musician's style |
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In 1948 he wrote he had an idea for a novel in which 2 guys hitchhike to California "in search of something they don't really find" |
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2016-09-19 |
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He contributed to the Columbia Review under the name Jean-Louis Incogniteau, perhaps while he was "On the Road" |
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2002-11-18 |
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His 1965 novel "Desolation Angels" was set just prior to "On the Road" |
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1999-04-14 |
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He not only led the "Beat Generation" movement, he also coined the term |
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1994-12-09 |
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French-Canadian by ancestry & American by birth, his real name was Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac |
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1989-01-13 |
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