Centennial Edition of Ground-breaking Kerouac Bio to be Published When Memory Babe first appeared from Grove Press in 1983, Library Journal wrote: “To call this book the definitive Kerouac biography is an understatement … [it is] all-inclusive and richly detailed. The reader’s immersion in Kerouac’s thoughts, moves, and mess-ups is so total that one… Continue reading New Edition of Kerouac Bio
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