Who is Jack Kerouac from The Portable Beat Reader and what is their importance? The_Portable_Beat_Reader English & Literature Jack Kerouac | The Portable Beat Reader

Jack Kerouac is the best known chronicler of the Beat Generation, primarily in his book "On the Road," which documents his travels across the United States and Mexico with Neal Cassady. Kerouac is the author of numerous other works including "The Dharma Bums" about the Buddhist poet Gary Snyder and a slightly fictionalized biography of Neal Cassady "Visions of Cody." Kerouac is born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922 and moved to New York City in 1940 to attend Columbia University.