Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac used an Underwood Portable Typewriter when Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road.

Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's 1951 novel On the Road

Angelou mentions Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's 1951 novel On the Road, thus connecting Angelou's own journey and uncertainty about the future with the journeys of literary figures.

Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy wrote “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men,” among other books.

James Lennox Kerr

On The Road James Lennox Kerr, Scottish socialist author noted for James Lennox Kerr's children's stories Jack London, American author, Call of the Wild Veeresh Malik, Indian businessman and writer John Masefield, O.M., LL.D., Poet Laureate, sailing ship apprentice

J ack Kerouac

J ack Kerouac, an American writer, is best known for On the Road, (1957) which describes Robert Kennedy's travels into the American West.

William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs had William S. Burroughs's own writing career long before On The Road was published.

McCarthy

The Road is one of the famous works of McCarthy.

Marlon Brando

Jack Kerouac makes the journey Marlon Brando will later chronicle in Marlon Brando's book On the Road.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s influence upon Kerouac is evident in On the Road as is suggested in biographical details.

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac began Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac's writing career in the 1940s but Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac's first success, On the Road, was not published until 1957.

Craig T. Nelson

From there, Craig T. Nelson published The Road to Gandolfo (1975) under the pen name Michael Shepherd before returning to Craig T. Nelson's given name for The Gemini Contenders (1976), The Chancellor Manuscript (1977), The Holcroft Covenant (1978) and The Matarese Circle (1979), which was adapted decades later with David Cronenberg attached to direct and Denzel Washington set to star as the novel's protagonist, Brandon Scofield, an intelligence operative who joins forces with Craig T. Nelson's most hated enemy to track down a mutual adversary.

James Joyce

So, when James Joyce wrote the book On the Road, James Joyce just put a sheet of paper into the typewriter and started typing.

Paolo Bacigalupi

In the first two decades of the new millennium, stories of the post-apocalypse have permeated pop culture, from books such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Paolo Bacigalupi’s

Cormac McCarthy's breathtaking novel, 'The Road',

Cormac McCarthy's breathtaking novel, 'The Road', was described by one LBier as "a beautifully bleak novel that explores the darkest depths of humanity", whilst another started their own psychological journey with James Runcie's 'East Fortune'.

by Jim Cartwright

Road is the first play written by Jim Cartwright, and was first produced in 1986 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, directed by Simon Curtis.

Observations English musician David Bowie

Observations English musician David Bowie composed on the road during English musician David Bowie's 1972 US tour.

A driven Kerouac

A driven Kerouac composed On the Road in a three-week, benzedrine-fuelled session after fashioning a scroll manuscript which allowed the all-important free flow of words to go unimpeded.

Robert Frost

The Road is based on the poem of the same name by Robert Frost.

Troy Bennett and Eric Worthley

the Road’s a story told in words and music by Troy Bennett and Eric Worthley.

Joyce Johnson

The author of the biography, Joyce Johnson, had a romantic affair with Kerouac and focuses primarily on the events leading up to Joyce Johnson's most well known novel, On the Road.