[Jack Kerouac at Horace Mann School, New York c.1940]
It’s Jack Kerouac‘s birthday today. Happy Birthday, Jack!
[Jack Kerouac – Naval Reserve Enlistment, 1943]
[Kerouac in the Merchant Marines, 1944]
[Jack Kerouac, 1953 – Photograph by Elliott Erwitt]
[Jack Kerouac c.1956]
[Jack Kerouac – Tangier, Morocco, 1957 (photograph by Allen Ginsberg)]
[Jack Kerouac, 1959 – Photograph by John Cohn]
[Jack Kerouac, 1965 – Photograph by Jerry Bauer]
[Jack Kerouac, 1967 – Photograph by Stanley Twardowicz]
this movie, made by some friends, recounts jack’s story pretty well & throws some interesting lights on matters: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276806/
Happy birthday to one of the greatest American writers. His book “On The Road” influenced an entire generation and the movement is still going strong.