6/10/2023 0 Comments The dharma bums amazonKerouac then spent a year in the Merchant Marine, during which he wrote his first book, The Sea Is My Brother (which was not published until 2011). He met the other pioneering writers of the Beat Generation during this time, including Allen Ginsberg (who appears in The Dharma Bums as Alvah Goldbrook) and Neal Cassady (the central figure of Kerouac’s most well-known novel, On the Road). A star football player in high school, Kerouac won an athletic scholarship to Columbia University but broke his leg in his first year and dropped out in his second. His older brother’s sudden death at age nine, as well as his intense early experiences in the Catholic Church, left a mark on his life and work. Jack Kerouac was born and raised in a French Canadian family in the Boston suburbs.
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