Tells of Jack's footballing years, how it wasn't in the cards, and what he did shortly after giving up his footballing dreams. ", Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac on March 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts. He's definitely an older and more bitter writer but he still writes very well and I found I did enjoy it a gr. ", Kerouac often based his fictional characters on friends and family. His voice so direct and sharp, it's like he's in the room with me, talking to me. There are a lot of back-and-forth perspectives where he breaks the 4th wall and shifts back and forth between fiction and real life describing the fiction. First Printing of the First Edition. share. There are two classifications for Jack Kerouac's novels, journals, poetry, etc.--the very good and the very bad. It leaves me with an almost religious sense of continuity between generations, across time. This was the next thing I was able to find by him. 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