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Penn Professor's New Book Puts Jack Kerouac's French-Canadian Roots at the Center

3 Nov 2026 2:31 a.m.

Jean-Christophe Cloutier's "Big American Writer: The Bilingual Jack Kerouac" dispels myths about the Beat icon and traces his French-Canadian identity and bilingualism through years of archival research.

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