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He attended Columbia University on a football scholarship, but later dropped out, and it was at Columbia where he first met fellow Beat notable Allen Ginsburg. After stints in the Naval Reserve and Merchant Marine he settled in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and struggled to establish a writing career, with his first published novel, 1950's ''The Town and the City'' (credited to John Kerouac) being a bit of an AcclaimedFlop. ''On the Road'', which he wrote in 1951, was rejected by numerous publishers before Viking Press finally agreed to publish an edited version in 1957. Released to acclaim and controversy, Kerouac became a major name overnight, hailed as the figurehead of the Beat movement. Maintaining a prodigious output while sustaining a reputation as a cult figure, Kerouac never quite replicated the popular success of ''On the Road'', and his tumultuous personal life eventually took its toll on him. Despite being a countercultural hero, he was critical of the hippie movement in TheSixties, and personally fell out with many of his Beat colleagues. He died at age 47 of an internal hemorrhage, aggravated by his lifelong alcohol usage.
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* ChristianityIsCatholic: Despite his famed dabblings in other lifestyles, Kerouac always considered himself fundamentally Catholic, and his biographers note that his work is steeped in Catholicism. Keruoac even said that ''On the Road'' "was really a story about two Catholic buddies roaming the country in search of God. And we found him."
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Jean-Louis "Jack" Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American writer (of French-Canadian descent) associated with Creator/TheBeatGeneration and best known for writing ''Literature/OnTheRoad'', an autobiographical novel describing Kerouac's travels with Neal Cassady. He also wrote ''The Dharma Bums'', which details his adventures with fellow writer Gary Snyder.
Interesting note: For a major figure of literature in the English language, Kerouac came to the language rather late: he was raised in a French-speaking (or rather, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joual Joual]]''-speaking) household, didn't learn English until he was six, and wasn't confident speaking English until high school. Rather impressive, eh?[[note]]Other English literature writers who came to the language late include Creator/JosephConrad and Creator/VladimirNabokov[[/note]] He also wrote a few short stories in his native tongue, which have received increased attention since it was discovered that Kerouac had originally planned to write ''On the Road'' in French and actually produced an abortive manuscript of it before producing the famous version.
Interesting note: For a major figure of literature in the English language, Kerouac came to the language rather late: he was raised in a French-speaking (or rather, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joual Joual]]''-speaking) household, didn't learn English until he was six, and wasn't confident speaking English until high school. Rather impressive, eh?[[note]]Other English literature writers who came to the language late include Creator/JosephConrad and Creator/VladimirNabokov[[/note]] He also wrote a few short stories in his native tongue, which have received increased attention since it was discovered that Kerouac had originally planned to write ''On the Road'' in French and actually produced an abortive manuscript of it before producing the famous version.
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Jean-Louis "Jack" Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American writer (of French-Canadian descent) associated with Creator/TheBeatGeneration and best known for writing ''Literature/OnTheRoad'', an autobiographical novel describing Kerouac's travels with Neal Cassady. He also wrote ''The Dharma Bums'', which details his adventures with fellow writer Gary Snyder.
Interesting note: For Kerouac had a major fascinating life. Born into a close-knit Catholic family of French descent who'd emigrated to Lowell, Massachusetts from UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}}, this important figure of literature in the English language, Kerouac language came to the language rather late: he was raised in a French-speaking (or rather, ''[[http://en.his family spoke the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joual Joual]]''-speaking) household, Joual]] dialect of French, he didn't learn English until he was six, and wasn't confident speaking English until high school. Rather impressive, eh?[[note]]Other school (it was noted that he had a heavy accent in his teen years).[[note]]Other important English literature writers who came to the language late include Creator/JosephConrad and Creator/VladimirNabokov[[/note]] He also wrote a few short stories in his native tongue, which have received increased attention since it was discovered that Kerouac had originally planned to write ''On the Road'' in French and actually produced an abortive manuscript of it before producing the famous version.
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He attended Columbia University on a football scholarship, but later dropped out, and it was at Columbia where he first met fellow Beat notable Allen Ginsburg. After stints in the Naval Reserve and Merchant Marine he settled in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and struggled to establish a writing career, with his first published novel, 1950's ''The Town and the City'' (credited to John Kerouac) being a bit of an AcclaimedFlop. ''On the Road'', which he wrote in 1951, was rejected by numerous publishers before Viking Press finally agreed to publish an edited version in 1957. Released to acclaim and controversy, Kerouac became a major name overnight, hailed as the figurehead of the Beat movement. Maintaining a prodigious output while sustaining a reputation as a cult figure, Kerouac never quite replicated the popular success of ''On the Road'', and his tumultuous personal life eventually took its toll on him. Despite being a countercultural hero, he was critical of the hippie movement in TheSixties, and personally fell out with many of his Beat colleagues. He died at age 47 of an internal hemorrhage, aggravated by his lifelong alcohol usage.
Kerouac was a ''huge'' influence on writers and musicians who came of age in TheFifties and TheSixties.
He attended Columbia University on a football scholarship, but later dropped out, and it was at Columbia where he first met fellow Beat notable Allen Ginsburg. After stints in the Naval Reserve and Merchant Marine he settled in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and struggled to establish a writing career, with his first published novel, 1950's ''The Town and the City'' (credited to John Kerouac) being a bit of an AcclaimedFlop. ''On the Road'', which he wrote in 1951, was rejected by numerous publishers before Viking Press finally agreed to publish an edited version in 1957. Released to acclaim and controversy, Kerouac became a major name overnight, hailed as the figurehead of the Beat movement. Maintaining a prodigious output while sustaining a reputation as a cult figure, Kerouac never quite replicated the popular success of ''On the Road'', and his tumultuous personal life eventually took its toll on him. Despite being a countercultural hero, he was critical of the hippie movement in TheSixties, and personally fell out with many of his Beat colleagues. He died at age 47 of an internal hemorrhage, aggravated by his lifelong alcohol usage.
Kerouac was a ''huge'' influence on writers and musicians who came of age in TheFifties and TheSixties.
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* RaisedCatholic: All of Kerouac's protagonists are implied to be this in one way or another, just like Kerouac himself.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: ''And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks'' is a gritty, violent, viceral true crime novel, a stark contrast to his earlier, more romantic literary efforts. In general, this is true of all of his books from ''Desolation Angels'' onward.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Owing to a complicated immigration history, Jack's name has been variously spelled Kerouack, Kirouac, and Kerouac. The latter was his preferred spelling, which stuck due to it being the spelling he published under.
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* FoodPorn: It's not unusual to find long, effusive paragraphs of Jack fantasizing about food. Eggs and coffee appear to be his favorite.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: A few major figures in American Buddhism criticized ''The Dharma Bums'' for what they felt was Kerouac's superficial understanding of the religion. Kerouac's friends Philip Whalen -- a Zen monk -- and Gary Snyder -- his mentor in Buddhism -- disagreed (though the latter had [[WallOfText other criticisms]] of the book.)
* AuthorAppeal: ''The Dharma Bums'' is the product of Kerouac's profound fascination with Buddhism in his early career.
* AuthorAppeal: ''The Dharma Bums'' is the product of Kerouac's profound fascination with Buddhism in his early career.
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* BeigeProse: Most of the books not written in his spontaneous prose style end up being this.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks'' is a gritty, violent, viceral true crime novel, a stark contrast to his earlier, more romantic literary efforts. In general, this is true of all of his books from ''Desolation Angels'' onward.
* GreenEyedMonster: Towards Gore Vidal, as expressed by the character Arial Lavalina in ''The Subterraneans''
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Inverted; Almost all of the characters in Kerouac's books were thinly-veiled versions of his friends and acquaintances, many of whom became famous authors and cultural figures in their own right. Reading his books in retrospect becomes a who's-who of major figures in 60s literature.
* PerspectiveFlip: ''And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks'' is written this way, alternating perspectives between the two main characters every chapter.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: The word choice of Kerouac's protagonist-narrators is characteristically...less than sensitive. This is especially true of Jack Duluoz, who features in several of his novels.
* RaisedCatholic: All of Kerouac's protagonists are implied to be this in one way or another, just like Kerouac himself.
* RealDreamsAreWeirder: ''Book of Dreams'' is more or less just a published dream journal. The result is 200 pages worth of MindScrew.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks'' is a gritty, violent, viceral true crime novel, a stark contrast to his earlier, more romantic literary efforts. In general, this is true of all of his books from ''Desolation Angels'' onward.
* GreenEyedMonster: Towards Gore Vidal, as expressed by the character Arial Lavalina in ''The Subterraneans''
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Inverted; Almost all of the characters in Kerouac's books were thinly-veiled versions of his friends and acquaintances, many of whom became famous authors and cultural figures in their own right. Reading his books in retrospect becomes a who's-who of major figures in 60s literature.
* PerspectiveFlip: ''And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks'' is written this way, alternating perspectives between the two main characters every chapter.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: The word choice of Kerouac's protagonist-narrators is characteristically...less than sensitive. This is especially true of Jack Duluoz, who features in several of his novels.
* RaisedCatholic: All of Kerouac's protagonists are implied to be this in one way or another, just like Kerouac himself.
* RealDreamsAreWeirder: ''Book of Dreams'' is more or less just a published dream journal. The result is 200 pages worth of MindScrew.
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* WallOfText: The result of Kerouac's signature "spontaneous prose" writing style, where he would just write continuously on a scroll of paper without any pause for hours at a time, fueled by coffee and amphetamines. Using this method, he could produce full-length novels in a couple of days at most, but they were virtually unreadable before an editor got a hold of them.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Kerouac insisted that he didn't write novels, he wrote " true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew." This actually caused some problems for his friends, given the sometimes scandalous nature of the stories he told.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Kerouac insisted that he didn't write novels, he wrote " true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew." This actually caused some problems for his friends, given the sometimes scandalous nature of the stories he told.
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* TheAlcoholic: Kerouac died at the age of 47 due to decades of alcoholism.
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* EruditeStoner: Like pretty much all Beat writers.
* FagHag: Several of his friends were gay or bisexual, but many of his books still contain gratuitous homophobic passages.
* MisaimedFandom: He despised the the so-called beatniks who formed a subculture based on his books. For him the Beat Generation was a group of beaten down and alienated outcasts, hardly something anyone would want to join.
* OddlySmallOrganization: Despite inspiring an entire subculture, the Beat Generation writers were few in number all new each other.
* RedScare: Kerouac's relationship with the other Beat writers was strained by his outspoken and fervent anti-communism (and general all-around drunken paranoia)- during a meeting with Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac derisively referred to Ginsberg as a "communist faggot", and at least once accused Ginsberg of being a Soviet agent sent to manipulate him. (Creator/KurtVonnegut related a similar story about meeting Kerouac in his "autobiographical collage," ''Palm Sunday''.) Revealingly, Kerouac watched UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy's televised hearings while [[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html smoking marijuana and cheering passionately for the anti-Communist Senator]].
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: He attended Columbia University with Ginsburg, Cassady, Burroughs, and a few others.
* FagHag: Several of his friends were gay or bisexual, but many of his books still contain gratuitous homophobic passages.
* MisaimedFandom: He despised the the so-called beatniks who formed a subculture based on his books. For him the Beat Generation was a group of beaten down and alienated outcasts, hardly something anyone would want to join.
* OddlySmallOrganization: Despite inspiring an entire subculture, the Beat Generation writers were few in number all new each other.
* RedScare: Kerouac's relationship with the other Beat writers was strained by his outspoken and fervent anti-communism (and general all-around drunken paranoia)- during a meeting with Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac derisively referred to Ginsberg as a "communist faggot", and at least once accused Ginsberg of being a Soviet agent sent to manipulate him. (Creator/KurtVonnegut related a similar story about meeting Kerouac in his "autobiographical collage," ''Palm Sunday''.) Revealingly, Kerouac watched UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy's televised hearings while [[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html smoking marijuana and cheering passionately for the anti-Communist Senator]].
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: He attended Columbia University with Ginsburg, Cassady, Burroughs, and a few others.
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* RomanAClef: The vast majority of Kerouac's novels are simply retellings of things that happened to him and the other Beat writers, with the names changed (and some parts taken out, as the first draft of ''Literature/OnTheRoad'' reveals). ''On The Road'' and ''Visions of Cody'' focus on his best friend Neal Cassady, ''The Dharma Bums'' is about his adventures with Gary Snyder, ''And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks'' (written with Creator/WilliamSBurroughs) was about a mutual friend who murdered a lover, and so forth. It became so well-known that the publisher insisted he use different character names in each book to prevent legal trouble for anyone involved, but [[http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1385865 they can still be decoded easily]].
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* RedScare: Kerouac's relationship with the other Beat writers was strained by his outspoken and fervent anti-communism (and general all-around drunken paranoia)- during a meeting with Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac derisively referred to Ginsberg as a "communist faggot", and at least once accused Ginsberg of being a Soviet agent sent to manipulate him. (Creator/KurtVonnegut related a similar story about meeting Kerouac in his "autobiographical collage," ''Palm Sunday''.) Revealingly, Kerouac watched UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy's televised hearings while [[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html smoking marijuana and cheering passionately for the anti-Communist Senator]].
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* EruditeStoner: Like pretty much all Beat writers.
* FagHag: Several of his friends were gay or bisexual, but many of his books still contain gratuitous homophobic passages.
* MisnamedFandom: He despised the the so-called beatniks who formed a subculture based on his books. For him the Beat Generation was a group of beaten down and alienated outcasts, hardly something anyone would want to join.
* OddlySmallOrganization: Despite inspiring an entire subculture, the Beat Generation writers were few in number all new each other.
* RedScare: Kerouac's relationship with the other Beat writers was strained by his outspoken and fervent anti-communism (and general all-around drunken paranoia)- during a meeting with Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac derisively referred to Ginsberg as a "communist faggot", and at least once accused Ginsberg of being a Soviet agent sent to manipulate him. (Creator/KurtVonnegut related a similar story about meeting Kerouac in his "autobiographical collage," ''Palm Sunday''.) Revealingly, Kerouac watched UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy's televised hearings while [[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html smoking marijuana and cheering passionately for the anti-CommunistSenator]].Senator]].
* WeAllWentToSchoolTogether: He attended Columbia University with Ginsburg, Cassady, Burroughs, and a few others.
* FagHag: Several of his friends were gay or bisexual, but many of his books still contain gratuitous homophobic passages.
* MisnamedFandom: He despised the the so-called beatniks who formed a subculture based on his books. For him the Beat Generation was a group of beaten down and alienated outcasts, hardly something anyone would want to join.
* OddlySmallOrganization: Despite inspiring an entire subculture, the Beat Generation writers were few in number all new each other.
* RedScare: Kerouac's relationship with the other Beat writers was strained by his outspoken and fervent anti-communism (and general all-around drunken paranoia)- during a meeting with Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac derisively referred to Ginsberg as a "communist faggot", and at least once accused Ginsberg of being a Soviet agent sent to manipulate him. (Creator/KurtVonnegut related a similar story about meeting Kerouac in his "autobiographical collage," ''Palm Sunday''.) Revealingly, Kerouac watched UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy's televised hearings while [[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html smoking marijuana and cheering passionately for the anti-Communist
* WeAllWentToSchoolTogether: He attended Columbia University with Ginsburg, Cassady, Burroughs, and a few others.
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Interesting note: For a major figure of literature in the English language, Kerouac came to the language rather late: he was raised in a French-speaking (or rather, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joual Joual]]''-speaking) household, didn't learn English until he was six, and wasn't confident speaking English until high school. Rather impressive, eh? He also wrote a few short stories in his native tongue, which have received increased attention since it was discovered that Kerouac had originally planned to write ''On the Road'' in French and actually produced an abortive manuscript of it before producing the famous version.
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Interesting note: For a major figure of literature in the English language, Kerouac came to the language rather late: he was raised in a French-speaking (or rather, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joual Joual]]''-speaking) household, didn't learn English until he was six, and wasn't confident speaking English until high school. Rather impressive, eh? eh?[[note]]Other English literature writers who came to the language late include Creator/JosephConrad and Creator/VladimirNabokov[[/note]] He also wrote a few short stories in his native tongue, which have received increased attention since it was discovered that Kerouac had originally planned to write ''On the Road'' in French and actually produced an abortive manuscript of it before producing the famous version.
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* ''Literature/OnTheRoad'' (1957)
* ''Film/PullMyDaisy'' (1959) -- short film based on Kerouac's play ''Beat Generation''; Kerouac wrote the screenplay and starred
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* ''Film/PullMyDaisy'' (1959) -- short film based on Kerouac's play ''Beat Generation''; Kerouac wrote the screenplay and starred
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* AuthorAvatar: Pretty much every protagonist in everything Kerouac ever published. Sal Paradise from ''OnTheRoad'' is Kerouac. Kerouac uses avatars in virtually all of his novels, although for legal reasons, the names are changed from book to book. As a result, in ''The Dharma Bums'', Kerouac is named Ray Smith, and in ''The Subterraneans'', he is named Leo Percepied. Virtually every other character is these books is a thinly-disguised avatar of one of Kerouac's friends or some prominent Beat Generation figure as well.
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* AuthorAvatar: Pretty much every protagonist in everything Kerouac ever published. Sal Paradise from ''OnTheRoad'' ''Literature/OnTheRoad'' is Kerouac. Kerouac uses avatars in virtually all of his novels, although for legal reasons, the names are changed from book to book. As a result, in ''The Dharma Bums'', Kerouac is named Ray Smith, and in ''The Subterraneans'', he is named Leo Percepied. Virtually every other character is these books is a thinly-disguised avatar of one of Kerouac's friends or some prominent Beat Generation figure as well.
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* RedScare: Kerouac's relationship with the other Beat writers was strained by his outspoken and fervent anti-communism (and general all-around drunken paranoia)- during a meeting with Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac derisively referred to Ginsberg as a "communist faggot", and at least once accused Ginsberg of being a Soviet agent sent to manipulate him. (Creator/KurtVonnegut related a similar story about meeting Kerouac in his "autobiographical collage," ''Palm Sunday''.) Revealingly, Kerouac watched Joseph [=McCarthy=]'s televised hearings while [[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html smoking marijuana and cheering passionately for the anti-Communist Senator]].
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"Home I'll Never Be" and "On The Road" were both adapted to song by Music/TomWaits on his album ''Music/OrphansBrawlersBawlersAndBastards''.
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* RedScare: Kerouac's relationship with the other Beat writers was strained by his outspoken and fervent anti-communism (and general all-around drunken paranoia)- during a meeting with Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac derisively referred to Ginsberg as a "communist faggot", and at least once accused Ginsberg of being a Soviet agent sent to manipulate him. (* KurtVonnegut relates a similar story about meeting Kerouac in his "autobiographical collage," *PalmSunday.) Revealingly, Kerouac watched Joseph [=McCarthy=]'s televised hearings while [[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html smoking marijuana and cheering passionately for the anti-Communist Senator]].
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* RedScare: Kerouac's relationship with the other Beat writers was strained by his outspoken and fervent anti-communism (and general all-around drunken paranoia)- during a meeting with Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac derisively referred to Ginsberg as a "communist faggot", and at least once accused Ginsberg of being a Soviet agent sent to manipulate him. (* KurtVonnegut relates (Creator/KurtVonnegut related a similar story about meeting Kerouac in his "autobiographical collage," *PalmSunday.''Palm Sunday''.) Revealingly, Kerouac watched Joseph [=McCarthy=]'s televised hearings while [[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html smoking marijuana and cheering passionately for the anti-Communist Senator]].
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* AuthorAvatar: Sal Paradise from ''OnTheRoad'' is Kerouac. Kerouac uses avatars in virtually all of his novels, although for legal reasons, the names are changed from book to book. As a result, in ''The Dharma Bums'', Kerouac is named Ray Smith, and in ''The Subterraneans'', he is named Leo Percepied.
* RedScare: Kerouac's relationship with the other Beat writers was strained by his outspoken and fervent anti-communism (and general all-around drunken paranoia)- during a meeting with Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac derisively referred to Ginsberg as a "communist faggot", and at least once accused Ginsberg of being a Soviet agent sent to manipulate him. Revealingly, Kerouac watched Joseph [=McCarthy=]'s televised hearings while [[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html smoking marijuana and cheering passionately for the anti-Communist Senator]].
* RedScare: Kerouac's relationship with the other Beat writers was strained by his outspoken and fervent anti-communism (and general all-around drunken paranoia)- during a meeting with Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac derisively referred to Ginsberg as a "communist faggot", and at least once accused Ginsberg of being a Soviet agent sent to manipulate him. Revealingly, Kerouac watched Joseph [=McCarthy=]'s televised hearings while [[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html smoking marijuana and cheering passionately for the anti-Communist Senator]].
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* AuthorAvatar: Pretty much every protagonist in everything Kerouac ever published. Sal Paradise from ''OnTheRoad'' is Kerouac. Kerouac uses avatars in virtually all of his novels, although for legal reasons, the names are changed from book to book. As a result, in ''The Dharma Bums'', Kerouac is named Ray Smith, and in ''The Subterraneans'', he is named Leo Percepied.
Percepied. Virtually every other character is these books is a thinly-disguised avatar of one of Kerouac's friends or some prominent Beat Generation figure as well.
* RedScare: Kerouac's relationship with the other Beat writers was strained by his outspoken and fervent anti-communism (and general all-around drunken paranoia)- during a meeting with Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac derisively referred to Ginsberg as a "communist faggot", and at least once accused Ginsberg of being a Soviet agent sent to manipulate him. (* KurtVonnegut relates a similar story about meeting Kerouac in his "autobiographical collage," *PalmSunday.) Revealingly, Kerouac watched Joseph [=McCarthy=]'s televised hearings while [[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html smoking marijuana and cheering passionately for the anti-CommunistSenator]].
Senator]].
* RedScare: Kerouac's relationship with the other Beat writers was strained by his outspoken and fervent anti-communism (and general all-around drunken paranoia)- during a meeting with Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac derisively referred to Ginsberg as a "communist faggot", and at least once accused Ginsberg of being a Soviet agent sent to manipulate him. (* KurtVonnegut relates a similar story about meeting Kerouac in his "autobiographical collage," *PalmSunday.) Revealingly, Kerouac watched Joseph [=McCarthy=]'s televised hearings while [[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html smoking marijuana and cheering passionately for the anti-Communist
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* RedScare: Kerouac's relationship with the other Beat writers was strained by his outspoken and fervent anti-communism (and general all-around drunken paranoia)- during a meeting with Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac derisively referred to Ginsberg as a "communist faggot", and at least once accused Ginsberg of being a Soviet agent sent to manipulate him. Revealingly, Kerouac watched Joseph [=McCarthy=]'s televised hearings while [[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html smoking marijuana and cheering passionately for the anti-Communist Senator from Wisconsin]].
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* RedScare: Kerouac's relationship with the other Beat writers was strained by his outspoken and fervent anti-communism (and general all-around drunken paranoia)- during a meeting with Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac derisively referred to Ginsberg as a "communist faggot", and at least once accused Ginsberg of being a Soviet agent sent to manipulate him. Revealingly, Kerouac watched Joseph [=McCarthy=]'s televised hearings while [[http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/1999/kerouac.html smoking marijuana and cheering passionately for the anti-Communist Senator from Wisconsin]].
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Jean-Louis "Jack" Kerouac was a American writer (of French-Canadian descent) associated with TheBeatGeneration and best known for writing ''OnTheRoad'', ''Literature/OnTheRoad'', an autobiographical novel describing Kerouac's travels with Neal Cassady. He also wrote ''The Dharma Bums'', which details his adventures with fellow writer Gary Snyder.
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Jean-Louis "Jack" Kerouac was a American writer (of French-Canadian descent) associated with TheBeatGeneration and best known for writing ''OnTheRoad'', an autobiographical novel describing Kerouac's travels with Neal Cassady. He also wrote ''The Dharma Bums'', which details his adventures with fellow writer Gary Snyder.
Interesting note: For a major figure of literature in the English language, Kerouac came to the language rather late: he was raised in a French-speaking (or rather, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joual Joual]]''-speaking) household, didn't learn English until he was six, and wasn't confident speaking English until high school. Rather impressive, eh? He also wrote a few short stories in his native tongue, which have received increased attention since it was discovered that Kerouac had originally planned to write ''On the Road'' in French and actually produced an abortive manuscript of it before producing the famous version.
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!!Jack Kerouac provides examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Kerouac died at the age of 47 due to decades of alcoholism.
* AuthorAvatar: Sal Paradise from ''OnTheRoad'' is Kerouac. Kerouac uses avatars in virtually all of his novels, although for legal reasons, the names are changed from book to book. As a result, in ''The Dharma Bums'', Kerouac is named Ray Smith, and in ''The Subterraneans'', he is named Leo Percepied.
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Interesting note: For a major figure of literature in the English language, Kerouac came to the language rather late: he was raised in a French-speaking (or rather, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joual Joual]]''-speaking) household, didn't learn English until he was six, and wasn't confident speaking English until high school. Rather impressive, eh? He also wrote a few short stories in his native tongue, which have received increased attention since it was discovered that Kerouac had originally planned to write ''On the Road'' in French and actually produced an abortive manuscript of it before producing the famous version.
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!!Jack Kerouac provides examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Kerouac died at the age of 47 due to decades of alcoholism.
* AuthorAvatar: Sal Paradise from ''OnTheRoad'' is Kerouac. Kerouac uses avatars in virtually all of his novels, although for legal reasons, the names are changed from book to book. As a result, in ''The Dharma Bums'', Kerouac is named Ray Smith, and in ''The Subterraneans'', he is named Leo Percepied.
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