As the original On the Road scroll heads to auction, a new exhibition uncovers the private life of the Beat legend ...

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 ...

A recent exhibition at the Grolier Club featured ashes that fell from a cigarette the novelist was probably smoking on the day he died. Joyce Johnson reflects on her time with Kerouac, and what she’s ...

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, ...

America wrote what many considered a great American road trip anthem after getting a flat tyre on their very own.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These Jack Kerouac Quotes Will Convince You to Get 'On the Road' and Leave It All Behind Jack Kerouac is best known for his novel ...

Unpublished in North America for nearly 70 years, Kerouac’s first novel, written when he was 21, offers a tantalizing glimpse of the themes and characters that were to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

Country music star and Grammy-winner Zach Bryan purchased a historic former church in Massachusetts to help revive a project to create a new facility honoring the legacy of "On the Road" author Jack ...

Every year on or around March 12th, acolytes of the Beat writer Jack Kerouac cluster at the Flamingo Sports Bar in St. Petersburg, Florida, to celebrate his birthday. Kerouac would have turned ...

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 ...