Jack Kerouac's ex-girlfriend, the author Joyce Johnson, tells PEOPLE that the intense public reaction to Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road made him feel he "was under a tremendous attack all the time" ...

The documentary "interweaves stories of modern-day 'on-the-roaders' who share connections to Kerouac’s life, alongside those [who were] influenced by him or knew and loved him," according to an ...

"Kerouac wanted to get out and experience something bigger..." "With all the savage irresponsibility that that comes with." Freestyle Releasing has debuted the trailer for a documentary titled Kerouac ...

Back in the early ’60s, a 16-year-old high school senior sat across from an admissions official at Princeton University. Glancing briefly at the student’s erratic academic record, he asked what field ...

It’s 2022 and “the twos” have it. First, the centennial of Ulysses, then The Wasteland and now that of Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), the famed novelist of On The Road, a prolific author who briefly called ...

Filmmaker Ebs Burnough's new documentary 'Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation' is in theaters now Tommy McArdle is a Writer-Reporter on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He joined the brand in 2022. Jack ...

Beat writer Jack Kerouac, pictured in 1965, cultivated the myth that On the Road came to him in a three-week rush, but the truth is he wrote, rewrote and revised again. Malcolm Cowley to Viking Press, ...

The new documentary 'Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation' is in select theaters Aug. 1 Matt Dillon and Josh Brolin are among a number of celebrities paying tribute to Jack Kerouac in a new ...

Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was a big inspiration for John Devine. The philosophy major who packed his bag the week after graduating from Alfred University and hitchhiked to California. For Michael ...

Jack Kerouac, circa 1958 (left); Joyce Johnson on June 5, 2025. Jack Kerouac's ex-girlfriend is recalling how the success of his breakthrough 1957 novel On the Road negatively affected the legendary ...