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Jack Kerouac

1922 - 1969

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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Kerouac has received more than 8,212,293 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Jack Kerouac is the 454th most popular writer (down from 318th in 2019), the 442nd most popular biography from United States (down from 299th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Writer.

Jack Kerouac is most famous for his novel On the Road, which documents a cross-country trip he took with Neal Cassady in the late 1940s.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jack Kerouac ranks 454 out of 7,302. Before him are Karl Barth, Gabriela Mistral, Susan Sontag, Salvatore Quasimodo, Boris Vian, and Wolfram von Eschenbach. After him are Jacques Hébert, Héloïse, Graham Greene, Vasily Grossman, Lesya Ukrainka, and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Jack Kerouac ranks 22. Before him are Erving Goffman, Liliane Bettencourt, Emil Zátopek, Hiroo Onoda, Aage Bohr, and Kurt Vonnegut. After him are Imre Lakatos, Philip Larkin, Vittorio Gassman, Alain Resnais, Christiaan Barnard, and Miguel Muñoz. Among people deceased in 1969, Jack Kerouac ranks 21. Before him are Saud of Saudi Arabia, Liu Shaoqi, Levi Eshkol, Morihei Ueshiba, Brian Jones, and Otto Dix. After him are Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Princess Alice of Battenberg, Dominique Pire, Witold Gombrowicz, Arthur Friedenreich, and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr..

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jack Kerouac ranks 442 out of 20,380. Before him are J. Paul Getty (1892), Richard Widmark (1914), Jim Mattis (1950), Albert Fish (1870), Michael Porter (1947), and Wilt Chamberlain (1936). After him are Dennis Hopper (1936), Yehudi Menuhin (1916), Herbert A. Simon (1916), Edward Hopper (1882), Leslie Groves (1896), and Lauren Bacall (1924).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jack Kerouac ranks 43. Before him are Dan Brown (1964), Sylvia Plath (1932), Philip Roth (1933), Frank Herbert (1920), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), and Susan Sontag (1933). After him are Eugene O'Neill (1888), Patricia Highsmith (1921), George R. R. Martin (1948), Robert A. Heinlein (1907), Tom Clancy (1947), and Alvin Toffler (1928).

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