Two days after that trip Kerouac was back at Columbia for a second, short stay.
Kerouac pumped gas for a while in Connecticut, where his family had moved worked briefly as a sports reporter for the Lowell Sun when his family returned there and found himself a scullion on the S. When he left school Jack Kerouac took his first road trip, to Washington, D.C. In 1941, his leg healed, Kerouac had a falling out with Columbia's football coach. The young writer studied the rolling style of Thomas Wolfe and plunged deep into the New York street scene. The injury freed him to pursue his true passion-literature.ĭuring this period, Kerouac once bragged, he set a Columbia record for cutting classes.
In his second game as a freshman Kerouac returned a kick 90 yards, but on his next return he broke his leg. At age 17 he went off to Horace Mann High School in New York to boost his grades and his weight in preparation for Columbia. At age 11 Kerouac began writing adolescent novels and fictionalized newspaper accounts of horse racing, football, and baseball.Ī gifted athlete, Kerouac was recruited by Columbia University for the football team. He had an older brother, Gerard, who died at age nine, and an older sister Caroline. Kerouac, who wanted to be a writer from his earliest childhood, did not speak a word of English until he was five years old.
Known as the father of the Beat Generation, Kerouac's freewheeling life on the road and his chronicles of that life paved the way for the youth counter-culture of the 1960s.īorn March 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts, Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac was the son of a French-Canadian printer. Like his fiction, Jack Kerouac covered a great deal of territory in a short period of time.
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