Nicholas’s Comments (group member since Apr 24, 2017)

Nicholas’s comments from the Kerouac Studies group.

I understand.
Rich Cohen is the author of "The Sun and The Moon and The Rolling Stones", did you read it, and are you knowledgeable regarding Jack Kerouac writing "On The Road"?

Did "Jack Kerouac banged out 'On the Road' at his mother's house in New Jersey"?
Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954"Kerouac's 'On the Road'
And Its Jersey Ties"
message: I read your latest book: The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones, on page 104 (The second sentence in chapter 14), you write "Jack Kerouac banged out 'On the Road' at his mother's house in New Jersey." Is this a true and accurate statement? I understand, based upon biographies of Jack Kerouac, he begun to write "On the Road" in several locations in Queens & Manhattan. Is this a true & accurate statement?
I understand, based upon biographies of Jack Kerouac, he begun to write "On the Road" in several locations in Queens and Manhattan, New York; and briefly, prior to Kerouac's death in Florida, he lived with his mother in a rental house in Northport, New York.

The first draft of what was to become the published novel was written in three weeks in April 1951, while Kerouac lived with Joan Haverty, his second wife, at 454 West 20th Street in New York City's Manhattan.

In the December 4, 1994, Sunday, Late Edition - Final, NY Times, Kristan Schillero's article, "Kerouac's 'On the Road' And Its Jersey Ties", He imagined himself in the story as Salvatore Paradise, a young writer attempting a novel while living with an unnamed aunt in another American city -- Paterson, N.J.