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Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
1922-1969
Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts
Typewriter: Underwood early 1930s portable, Royal Standard
Poet and novelist. Born Jean-Louis Kerouac, onMarch 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at Columbia University (1940-42), and served in the Merchant Marines (1942-43) and the U.S. Navy (1943). After his discharge, Kerouac held a variety of jobs, including merchant seaman and forest ranger, and traveled throughout the United States and Mexico. He published his first novel, The Town and the City in 1950. more
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