Someday We''ll Build Cabins: The Letters of Jack Kerouac, Jacques Beckwith , and Lois Sorrells Beckwith

About Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell Massachusetts in 1922 the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City where he first met Neal Cassady Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs. His first novel The Town and the City appeared in 1950 but it was On the Road published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady that epitomized to the world what became known as the Beat generation and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed among them The Dharma Bums The Subterraneans and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of one vast book The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg Florida in 1969 at the age of forty-seven.Jacques Beckwith (1920-2000) was an artist and carpenter living and working during the 1950s and 60s. He was a founding member of the Hansa Gallery one of the legendary downtown New York galleries clustered around E. I 0th Street during that period.