Photographer: Fred Dewitt
Date: 1958
Place: Orlando, Florida
Courtesy of the Orange County Regional History Center. This image was taken in Jack Kerouac's home in an Orlando neighborhood known as College Park. Fred DeWitt was a photographer for Life Magazine at the time.
Jack Kerouac wrote the manuscript for the now classic Beat Generation novel On the Road within a 20-day period in New York City in 1951 employing “spontaneous prose,”
a nonstop, unedited style inspired by letters from his friend Neal Cassady. Kerouac’s manuscript is a 120-foot long scroll consisting of a series of single-spaced typed twelve-foot long
rolls of paper that have been taped together. Thirty-six feet of the original manuscript will be exhibited along with an overview of Kerouac’s life and other works, a brief history of the Beat
movement and Beats in San Francisco, told through photos, books and ephemera.
This manuscript is on loan from the collection of James S. Irsay. © Estate of Anthony G. Sampatacacus and the Estate of Jan Kerouac. Sponsored by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.
Exhibition:
January 14 – March 19, 2006
Main Library, Lower Level, Jewett Gallery
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
News Release - Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Manuscript Makes Stop at the Main
Related Programs:
Kerouac's On the Road: From East to West
Gerald Nicosia, author of Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac, discusses the life of Jack Kerouac, his classic book
On the Road and Kerouac's connection to San Francisco.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
Women of the Beat Generation
Join us when Brenda Knight, author of Women of the Beat Generation discusses the lives and times of the Beats with Eileen Kaufman, Mary Norbert Korte, Jamie Cassady and Joanna McClure.
Author ruth weiss will read poetry accompanied with jazz.
Thursday, February 9
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
The Beat Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour
Bill Morgan, author of The Beat Generation in San Francisco, provides a virtual “walking tour” of the
Beat homes and haunts in San Francisco. Co-sponsored by City Lights Books.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
Thursdays at Noon Large Screen Video Series
January 2006
The Beats: Jack Kerouac and Friends
- January 5 – The Source (1999)
- January 12 – The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1992)
- January 19 – The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1996)
- January 26 – Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats (1985)
On the Road is the January selection for the On the Same Page: All San Francisco Reads monthly book club.
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