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Celebrated "On The Road" author Jack Kerouac would have turned 100 on March 12.

Jack Kerouac, original name Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac, (born March 12, 1922, Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 21, 1969, St. Petersburg, Florida), American novelist, poet, and leader of the Beat movement whose most famous book, On the Road (1957), had broad cultural influence before it was recognized for its literary merits. On the Road captured the spirit of its time as no other work of the 20th century had since F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925). Lowell, Massachusetts, a mill town, had a large French Canadian population. While Kerouac’s mother worked in a s...

Celebrated "On The Road" author Jack Kerouac would have turned 100 on March 12.

Celebrated "On The Road" author Jack Kerouac would have turned 100 on March 12.