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You can go to www Effortless English.com for more information. Let's get started. Today's topic. Jack Kerouac, King of the Beats. Jack Kerouac was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. While enjoying popularity,

but little critical success during his own lifetime,

Kerouac is now considered one of America's most important authors.

His spontaneous confessional prose style inspired many other writers,

including Tom Robbins, Lester Bangs, Hunter S. Thompson, and Bob Dylan.

Kerouac's best known works are On the Road, The Darmabums, Big Sir, and visions of Cody.

He divided most of his adult life between roaming the vast American landscape and living with his mother.

Faced with the changing country, Kerouac sought to find his place,

eventually rejecting the conservative values of the 1950s. His writing often reflects a desire to

break free from society structures and to find meaning in life. This search led

him to experiment with drugs and to embark on trips around the world.

His books are often credited as the catalyst for the 1960s counterculture.

Carowac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts to a family of French Canadians.

Jack didn't start to learn English until the age of six,

and at home he and his family spoke French. At an early age he was

profoundly marked by the death of his elder brother Gerard an event that

later prompted him to write the book, Visions of Gerard.

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