This September marks 50 years since Jack Kerouac's On the Road hit bookshelves ... but we all know what dogs do. But the scroll: That part's true. Jim Canary, the Indiana University conservator ...

The life of Jack Kerouac is almost as interesting – as frenzied ... the exploits of T-shirted transients Kerouac and Cassady. The “Original Scroll” version of “On The Road” is not exactly bathroom ...

The legend behind the writing of Jack Kerouac's On the Road is well known ... typing it out on a single, 120-foot-long scroll. Kerouac actually spent much more time laying the groundwork for ...

Just as Jack Kerouac typed it 56 years ago on 120 feet of tracing paper taped together, the scroll that became "On The Road" transformed his real life adventures into a high-octane odyssey that ...

Author Jack Kerouac (inset) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, 100 years ago this month. Denis Tangney Jr, via Getty Images Here’s a reason to get on the road. It was 100 years ago this week ...

Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and its working manuscript, the extraordinary 120-foot scroll he would unfurl before startled publishers, sits on display at the American Writers Museum in Chicago.

LOWELL — It all begins tonight — finally! Jack Kerouac’s original On the Road scroll — the first 36 feet of the 120-foot-long manuscript — makes its way home this evening and will rest ...

NEW YORK - Fifty years ago American author Jack Kerouac sat at a typewriter and pounded out in 20 days, on one long continuous scroll, On the Road, a book that became the Beat Generation's anthem ...