Bebop jazz artists such as Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker influenced Jack Kerouacās writing style, inspiring his development of a āspontaneous bop prosody.ā Kerouac, who was raised Roman Catholic, was also influenced by Buddhism, particularly his study of Zen, and he wrote haiku and incorporated the form into his prose.
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