Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Jack Kerouac, Richard Wright, Gary Snyder, George Swede, Gerald Vizenor, Kenneth Rexroth, Jim Kacian, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Paul Conneally, Sonia Sanchez, Cid Corman, Robert Kelly, Hiroaki Sato, James Kirkup, John Brandi, Gary Gach, Santiago B. Villafania, Tazuo Yamaguchi, William J. Higginson, Alan Pizzarelli, Kilmeny Niland, Robin D. Gill, Nigel Jenkins, Nick Virgilio, Geraldine Clinton Little, Lenard Moore, Andreas Gripp, Richard Krawiec, Paul O. Williams, Gabriel Rosenstock, Sadakichi Hartmann, Frederick Kesner, Paul Reps, Mykel Board, Cor van den Heuvel, Chris Faiers, Kenneth Yasuda, Raymond Roseliep, Claire Pratt, Minerva Bloom, Bruce Ross, Tom Gilroy, Roger Jones, James William Hackett, Ronda Eller, Edwin E. Smith, Paula Gruden, Lee Gurga. Excerpt: Jean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac ( or; March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969) was an American/French-Canadian novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. His writings have inspired other writers, including Ken Kesey, Bob Dylan, Richard Brautigan, Thomas Pynchon, Lester Bangs, Tom Robbins, Will Clarke, and Haruki Murakami. Critics of his work have labeled it "slapdash," "grossly sentimental," and "immoral." Kerouac became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the Hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward it. In 1969, at age 47, Kerouac died from internal bleeding due to long-standing abuse of alcohol. Since his death Kerouac's literary prestige has grown and several previously unseen works have been published. All of his books are in print today, among them: On...