The legend behind the writing of Jack Kerouac's On the Road is well known ... but the part about the giant scroll manuscript is true. Now for the first time, the unfurled scroll has gone on ...

An original manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s first published novel, "The Town and the City," is at the center of a lawsuit filed by the executor of the beat generation author’s estate against the ...

This September marks 50 years since Jack Kerouac's On the Road hit bookshelves ... only to be told the manuscript was "unpublishable." He says one of the book's biggest advocates was author ...

The original manuscript of “On The Road,” author Jack Kerouac’s epic tale of disaffected youth wandering America, was auctioned Tuesday for $2.43 million, a record for the sale of a literary ...

the original manuscript Kerouac typed out while living on West 20th Street in Chelsea. “Jack changed his writing style for this new novel, which becomes ‘On the Road,’ ” explained Kerouac ...

Not a bad observation. The scroll was in fact the manuscript of one of the most famous and iconic novels of the 20th century, Jack Kerouac's stream-of-consciousness Beat generation bible ...

Fans of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel “On the Road” will soon have the chance to see a portion of the original 120-foot manuscript that inspired a subculture of restless Beats. Thirty-six feet ...

The 1951 manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s landmark novel “On the Road” goes on sale May 22 in New York, but Christie’s auction house gave potential European buyers and Kerouac fans a chance ...

The Orange County Regional History Center will display an original Jack Kerouac manuscript for “The Dharma Bums,” beginning Thursday. The 1957 work was created by the writer while living in ...

Last year the Bosnian writer Aleksandar Hemon used Jack Kerouac’s name as ... and always uncomfortable with authority, Kerouac rolled up his manuscript, saying that it had been dictated to ...

Jack Kerouac. For the first time, fans of Kerouac and beatniks old and new can see every word, edit and smudge of his manuscript, unrolled end to end and under glass at the University of Iowa ...