| The spokesperson in prose for the Beat movement, which involved a generation of American writers and poets in the 1950s, Jack Kerouac rejected the conventions of mainstream thought and described an inspiring alternative lifestyle in his writings. Kerouac dropped out of New York City’s Columbia College, the undergraduate college at Columbia University, and spent years roaming the United States. He combined fact and fiction to create popular works such as On the Road (1957), in which he describes the alienation and restless pursuit of truth experienced by this noncomformist generation. Kerouac drew from experiences with his contemporaries and friends, including intellectuals Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs. |
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