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Jack Kerouac
American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, c. 1965.
Jack Kerouac wrote his novel Big Sur in 10 days in 1961. He completed the work while staying in a cabin belonging to fellow Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti within the Big Sur region of California.1