![]() ![]() In subsequent years, he wrote many more novels, including Doctor Sax, Lonesome Traveler, and Big Sur. ![]() With its success, Kerouac achieved the fame he sought. Hailed the finest novel on the "Beat Generation", On the Road explores an era of experimentation and void in the author and his culture. Kerouac's next novel, On the Road, a work inspired by Kerouac's cross-country trips with his friend Neal Cassady, was rejected for seven years before it was finally published. Kerouac's first novel, The Town and the City, was based on the torments he suffered as he tried to balance his wild city life with his old-world family values. During this time and despite his parents' disapproval, he befriended a group of young Columbia students and began work on a novel with the help of Allen Ginsberg, the author of the avant-garde poem, Howl. Kerouac studied briefly at Columbia University before dropping out to join the Merchant Marines. ![]() Jack Kerouac, MaOctoJean Louis Kerouac, better known as Jack Kerouac, was born on Main Lowell, Massachusetts. ![]()
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