Tweets on Jack Kerouac at 100

Jack Kerouac at 100: Trauma, faith and rotgut wine https://t.co/CtzrliWbl2

— The Independent (@Independent) March 12, 2022

From @GlobeIdeas: Jack Kerouac’s road from bum to hometown hero https://t.co/87YGKhVVOb

— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) March 11, 2022

Watching an episode of #theipcressfile every night at the moment. Before he became an established author Len Deighton was an illustrator, this is his design for the 1957 first UK edition of the Kerouac classic pic.twitter.com/vlKWhRf0UJ

— Bruce Gorrie (@bsgorrie) March 8, 2022

To celebrate Jack Kerouac’s 100th birthday, our friends at @lithub & our colleagues at @VikingBooks have pulled some archival materials — including correspondence from Malcolm Cowley, internal reader’s reports on THE DHARMA BUMS, & more! #kerouac100https://t.co/gigknddwIh

— Grove Atlantic (@groveatlantic) March 12, 2022

#OTD in 1957 American writer Jack Kerouac published On the Road.

In three weeks in April 1951, Kerouac typed the manuscript of On the Road onto rolls of architects’ paper, resulting in a 120-foot long manuscript, which we exhibited in the Library in 2012. #Throwback pic.twitter.com/YPNHh5qJKm

— The British Library (@britishlibrary) September 5, 2021