EDITOR'S NOTE: In late 1969, St. Petersburg Times reporter Jack McClintock visited several times with Jack Kerouac at Kerouac's home on 10th Avenue N for this story, which was published Oct. 12 ...

Did Jack Kerouac really write On the Road in a drug-fueled three-week frenzy? Yes — and no. Whether you believe the legend or not, it's 50 years since the event, and the 120-foot scroll is on ...

What if Jack Kerouac had lived beyond his 47th birthday -- way beyond? ... Jack Kerouac is back and on the road once again in new novel: Minister of Culture. Updated: Oct. 01, ...

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 ...

Beat writer Jack Kerouac usually set out without a map, plan or even a purpose. So tracking exactly where the author stopped off in his travels wouldn't be encouraged by the man who disliked the ...

Time is a key element in Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road.” “We know time,” the protagonist Dean Moriarty (based on Kerouac’s friend Neal Cassady) mutters throughout the book, an ...

The life of Jack Kerouac is almost as interesting – as frenzied and fabled – as his legend. Almost. His admirers, apologists – the hippies and beatniks that hijacked his prose for their own movements ...

Sex, drugs, jazz, road trips, and rambling prose—this is Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. The acclaimed novel, originally written on a continuous roll of paper in a three-week period, has become a ...

Did Jack Kerouac really write On the Road in a drug-fueled three-week frenzy? Yes — and no. Whether you believe the legend or not, it's 50 years since the event, and the 120-foot scroll is on ...