On the Road Travel Book

To travel.
To be read and enjoyed, then left for another to do the same.
Take me, read me, drop me.
Feel free to sign the inside back cover...I'm not a book snob!

Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. He is, along with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, amongst the best known of a group of writers and friends who came to be known as the Beat Generation, a term he himself created.
Part of the Kerouac myth is that, fueled by Benzedrine and coffee, he completed the first version of the novel during a three week extended session of spontaneous confessional prose. This session produced the now famous scroll of "On the Road."
Publishers rejected the book due to its experimental writing style and its sympathetic tone towards minorities and marginalized social groups of the United States in the 1950s. In 1957, Viking Press purchased the novel, demanding major revisions.
The book is largely autobiographical, narrated from the point of view of the character Sal Paradise, describing Kerouac's roadtrip adventures across the United States and Mexico with Neal Cassady, the model for the character of Dean Moriarty. Kerouac's novel is often described as the defining work of the post-World War II Beat Generation and Kerouac came to be called "the king of the beat generation," a term that he never felt comfortable with, and once observed, "I'm not a beatnik, I'm a Catholic." Kerouac's friendship with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso, among others, defined a generation.