Autobiographical novels, such as
On the Road
(1957) and
The Dharma Bums
(1958), of American writer Jack Kerouac, originally Jean-Louis Kerouac, embody the values of the Beat Generation.Career of Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac began in the 1940s but met not with commercial success until 1957, when people published On the Road. The book, an American classic, defined the Beat Generation. Kerouac died from an abdominal hemorrhage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ke...