Category: Writers
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New York Times writer Gilbert Millstein reviews “On the Road,” the second novel (hardly anyone had read the first) by a 35-year-old Columbia Dropout Named Jack Kerouac. September 5, 1957.
Image: Jack Kerouac, 1956. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, September 5, 1957, New York Times writer Gilbert Millstein reviews “On the Road,” the second novel (hardly anyone had read the first) by a 35-year-old Columbia dropout named Jack Kerouac. “Jack went to bed obscure,” Kerouac’s girlfriend told a journalist, “and woke up famous.”…