Jack Kerouac was born in Massachusetts, in 1922. Kerouac quit school and joined the Merchant Marine, starting the travels which would become ‘’ his most acclaimed novel. It is said to be an account of Kerouac's ("Sal Paradise’s") travels with Neal Cassady ("Dean Moriarty"). According to Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac typed the first draft of on a fifty-foot long roll of paper. gave an outlet of release for the dissatisfied young generation of the late forties and early fifties. And although it has been fifty years since the events in , the f ....