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  wife, Joan Haverty.

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  1951. Lives with Joan at

  454 W. 20th St.; reads manuscripts of

  Burroughs’ Junkie and Holmes’ Go in

  January-March; in April writes roll manu-

  script of On the Road in three weeks in

  New York City; Joan orders him out of

  apartment in May; in October discovers his

  compositional method of "sketching" or

  "spontaneous prose" and begins to rewrite

  On the Road as the experimental book

  Visions of Cody; arrives at San Francisco

  home of Neal and Carolyn Cassady in

  December; gets $250 advance for On the

  Road from Ace Books.

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  1952. Writes Doctor Sax in

  Mexico City; works as a student brakeman

  and writes "The Railroad Earth" in San

  Francisco; daughter, Jan Kerouac, born in

  Albany, New York, to Joan Haverty.

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  1953. Writes Maggie Cassidy

  and The Subterraneans in New York; works for

  Southern Pacific railroad out of San Jose; signs

  up as a waiter on the William Carruth bound for

  Korea but quits in New Orleans; back in New

  York, meets and has love affair with "Mardou

  Fox".

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  1954. Begins study of

  Buddhism in New York and California;

  writes San Francisco Blues

  in San

  Francisco, Some of the Dharma in New

  York and North Carolina; Sterling Lord

  becomes his literary agent; arrested for

  non-support of his daughter, Jan.

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  1955. Hitchhikes to Mexico

  City, falls in love with Esperanza

  Villanueva, an Indian prostitute addicted to

  drugs; writes Mexico City Blues, begins

  Tristessa in Mexico City; travels to San

  Francisco to see Ginsberg, meets Kenneth

  Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary

  Snyder, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure;

  attends "6 Poets at the 6 Gallery" reading in

  San Francisco; returns to North Carolina.

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  1956. Writes Visions of

  Gerard in North Carolina; hitchhikes to

  California, shares cabin with Snyder in

  Marin County; writes Scripture of the

  Golden Eternity; meets Alan Watts and

  Robert Creeley; works as a firewatcher in

  Washington State; returns to Mexico City

  and writes first part of Desolation Angels

  and completes Tristessa; returns to New

  York with Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky;

  meets Salvador Dali.

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  1957. Signs book contract

  with Viking Press for On the Road; begins

  romance with Joyce Glassman; meets

  William Carlos Williams; visits Burroughs

  in Tangier, travels in Europe; moves with

  mother to Berkeley, California, then back

  to Orlando, Florida; On the Road published

  on September 5th; writes The Dharma

  Bums in Florida.

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  1958. The Subterraneans

  published by Grove Press; buys house in

  Northport, Long Island, and moves mother

  there from Florida; starts Memory Babe;

  breaks up with Joyce Glassman and begins

  affair with Dody Muller.

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  1959. Narrates film Pull

  My Daisy in New York; meets Anais Nin;

  Truman Capote, on the David Susskind

  television show, refers to Kerouac’s writ-

  ing as "typewriting"; drinking heavily;

  Doctor Sax published by Grove; sells

  Northport home and returns with mother

  to Orlando; Maggie Cassidy published as a

  paperback original by Avon; breaks off

  with Muller and begins relationship with

  Lois Sorrell; television sit-com Dobie

  Gillis

  features "beatnik" character,

  Maynard G. Krebs; moves mother back to

  Northport yet again; appears on the Steve

  Allen Show in Hollywood and has dinner

  with Mamie Van Doren after the show;

  attends screening of Pull My Daisy in San

  Francisco; Mexico City Blues published by

  Grove; drives back to New York with Lew

  Welch and Albert Saijo.

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  1960. Falls while drunk

  and injures elbow and head on two occa-

  sions; experiences first bouts of delirium

  tremens; Avon published Tristessa and

  movie version of The Subterraneans

  is

  released; LeRoi Jones’ Totem Press pub-

  lishes Scripture of the Golden Eternity and

  New Directions issues a limited edition of

  Visions of Cody; takes train to San

  Francisco and visits with Ferlinghetti and

  Cassady; suffers a breakdown in

  September; returns to Northport to live

  with mother; Lonesome Traveler published

  by McGraw-Hill, and Book of Dreams pub-

  lished by City Lights.

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  1961. With Allen Ginsberg,

  takes psilocybin provided by Timothy

  Leary; moves with mother to Florida yet

  again; finishes Book of Dreams; flies to

  Mexico City and writes second half of

  Desolation Angels; returns to Florida and

  writes Big Sur in ten nights; heavy drinking

  and partying with Lucien Carr and friends

  in New York and brief affair with teenager

  named Yseult; back to Florida.

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  1962. Goes on a "30-day

  drunk" during visit to New York; frequent

  trips back and forth from Florida to New

  York, Maine, Cape Cod, Connecticut,

  Lowell; Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy pub-

  lishes Big Sur; moves with mother by train

  back to Northport again.

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  1963. Drinks and plays

  pool at Gunther’s Bar in Northport;

  Cassady comes to visit; Visions of Gerard

  released by Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy.

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  1964. Gives reading at

  Harvard University; Cassady drives

  Kerouac to New York City to meet "Merry

  Pranksters" at a party on Park Avenue;

  writes Vanity of Duluoz; in an interview,

  claims he supports Barry Goldwater for

  president; sells Northport house and

  moves with mother to St. Petersburg,

  Florida, where he is arrested for urinating

  in public.

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  1965.Breaks off with Gins-

  berg because he is offended by Ginsberg’s

  political activity; Coward-McCann publish-

  es Desolation Angels; visits Paris and writes

  Satori in Paris in one week after returning

  to Florida; hangs out at Wild Board Tavern

  in Tampa; drives to Connecticut to visit

  John Clellon Holmes and to Lowell to see

  Tony and Stella Sampas and other Lowell

  friends.

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  1966. Sells St. Petersburg

  house and moves with his mother to

  Hyannis on Cape Cod; Grove publishes

  Satori in Paris; mother suffers stroke; trav-

  els to Italy to promote Italian edition of Big

  Sur; marries Stella Sampas in Hyannis; is

  arrested twice in December for public

  drunkenness.

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  1967. Moves with Stella

  and mother back to Lowell; drinks at

  Nicky’s Bar, owned by brother-in-law

  Nicky Sampas; attends Expo ’67 in

  Montreal; daughter Jan visits in Lowell.

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  1968. Neal Cassady

  dies; Vanity of Duluoz is published;

  travels to Europe with Tony and Nick

  Sampas; spends a night in jail for car-

  rying an open bottle of beer on the

  street; appears on The Firing Line with

  William F. Buckley; reunites with

  Burroughs and Carr in New York;

  drives to new home in St. Petersburg

  with his wife Stella and his mother;

  takes large doses of LSD at friend Cliff

  Anderson’s cabin in the woods.

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  1969.Gets beaten up in

  the Cactus Bar in St. Petersburg; on

  October 21, Jack Kerouac dies from hem-

  orrhaging at St. Anthony’s Hospital in St.

  Petersburg.

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