Saturday was the centenary of Jack Kerouac's birth. Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac was born on March 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to French Canadian parents, Léo-Alcide Kéroack and Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque. He died on October 20, 1969, in St Petersburg, Florida, aged 47.
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Not only the most famous typewriter user, I think he could also claim the most famous user of an entire roll of teletype paper.
ReplyDeleteAgatha Christie and Danielle Steele surely would be up there too.
ReplyDeleteGreat article! I serve on the Board of Directors of the Kerouac Project, and we manage the writers residency here in Orlando, letting writers stay in the house where he lived in 1956 - 57. It's where he lived when On The Road was published and where he wrote Dharma Bums over an 11-day period (also on a teletype roll).
ReplyDeleteThe second photo in your article was taken in Jack's bedroom and is actually a series of 3. I don't have a great example to show you, but if you look at our History page (https://www.kerouacproject.org/history), you can see Jack's bedroom and the 3 photos on the wall above the bed.