jack kerouac
Date Submitted: 07/12/2004 01:08:39
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 5 pages (1381 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 5 pages (1381 words)
Jack Kerouac
Born: March 12, 1922
Place of Birth: Lowell, Massachusetts
Died: October 21, 1969
Place of Death: St. Petersburg, Florida
Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Kerouac, a French-Canadian child in
working-class Lowell, Massachusetts. Ti Jean spoke a local dialect of
French called joual before he learned English. The youngest of three
children, he was heartbroken when his older brother Gerard died of
rheumatic fever at the age of nine.
Ti Jean was an intense and serious child, devoted …
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…marriages had
ended within months. In the mid-1960's he married again, but this time
to a maternalistic and older childhood acquaintance from small-town
Lowell, Stella Sampas, who he hoped would help around the house as his
mother entered old age.
He moved back to Lowell with Stella and his mother, and then moved again
with them to St. Petersburg, Florida. His health destroyed by drinking,
he died at home in 1969. He was 47 years old.
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