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Free of conformist society, traditional writing methods, and the mindless. Oct 20, 2015 jack kerouac 19221969, the central figure of the beat generation, was born in lowell, massachusetts, in 1922 and died in st. The legendary 1951 scroll draft of on the road, published word for word as kerouac originally composed it. On the road, city lights books jack kerouac jack kerouac 19221969 was a principal actor in the beat generation, a companion of allen ginsberg and neal cassady in that great adventure.
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