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Jack Kerouac
American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, c. 1965.
While attending Columbia University, Jack Kerouac met two writers who became his lifelong friends: Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.12
Together with Kerouac, these men became the seminal figures of the Beat movement, a literary group that explored themes of both social alienation and spiritual transcendence.12