Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen

Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen: Poetry For The Beat Generation

by Sacha O'Grady
December 11, 2016

Jack Kerouac is most famous for his iconic novel On the Road, a book which helped define an entire generation of drifters, hitchhikers, poets and musicians (although not exclusively in that order), all of whom Kerouac collectively coined as “The Beat Generation." Upon publication in 1957, On the Road was celebrated by The New York Times Gilbert Millstein as “a major novel," one which he considered as being just as important to the lost generation of the '50s as Hemingway ...