How Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” Inspired the Beat Movement (opens in new tab)

The 1950s had a long line of bestselling U.S. fiction on a myriad of subjects, from J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye to Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. But Jack Kerouac’s semi-autobiographical novel On the Road was singular in revving up the countercultural Beat Movement, both in literature and its intersection with emerging […]