**Jack Kerouac *was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts. The best-known of his many works, On the Road , published in 1957, was an international bestseller. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the age of forty-seven. Todd F. Tietchenis an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mass...

**Jack Kerouac *was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts. The best-known of his many works, On the Road , published in 1957, was an international bestseller. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the age of forty-seven. Todd F. Tietchenis an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where he teaches courses in Beat writing and contemporary American literature. He is the author of The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana *, along with numerous articles on American art, literature, and intellectual history.