" They're the kind of twisted, instantly memorable characters one meets in John Ford's westerns, Jack Kerouac's road novels, but, most of all, in the blues and country songs of the 1920s, ' 30s and ' 40s.

* Galatea Dunkel, in Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road

In Jack Kerouac's 1955 novel, On The Road, the book's narrator Sal Paradise and other prominent character Dean Moriarty ( an alias of Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady ) encounter the Sabine River.

* September 5 – The first edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road goes on sale.

Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation novel On the Road, some of which takes place in Denver, contains several references to Colfax.

Beatnik was a media stereotype of the 1950s to mid 1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s and violent film images, along with a cartoonish depiction of the real-life people and the spiritual quest in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical fiction.

* Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans

In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, it is suggested that Jack Kerouac's Dean Moriarty ( from On the Road ) is his great-grandson, and the rivalry between the two criminals is continued by the fact that The Doctor's great-grandson is Kerouac's other creation, Doctor Sax.

Like Jack Kerouac's " spontaneous prose ", Selby's writing was often completed in a fast, stream of consciousness style, and to facilitate this he replaced his apostrophes with forward slashes "/" due to their closer proximity on his typewriter, thus allowing uninterrupted typing.

As Selby continued to work on his writing, Amiri Baraka, Selby's longtime friend, encouraged Selby to contact Sterling Lord, who at the time was Jack Kerouac's agent.

Two other of the most notable books of the 1950s, Jack Kerouac's On the Road ( 1957 ) and J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye ( 1951 ), have been the subject of much debate as to whether or not they make use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

* Tracy was mentioned in Jack Kerouac's book, " On the Road.

* Jack Kerouac's birthplace: In the Centralville section of the city at 9 Lupine Road.

The city is mentioned in Jack Kerouac's famous novel On the Road.

Allen Ginsberg's Howl ( 1956 ), William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch ( 1959 ) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road ( 1957 ) are among the best known examples of Beat literature.

Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2006.

Characters based on Gaddis include " Harry Lees " in Chandler Brossard's 1952 novel Who Walk in Darkness, " Harold Sand " in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical 1958 novella The Subterraneans and possibly " Bill Gray " in Don DeLillo's 1991 novel Mao II.

Allen Ginsberg set the tone of the movement in his poem Howl, a Whitmanesque work that began: " I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness ..." Among the most representative achievements of the Beats in the novel are Jack Kerouac's On the Road ( 1957 ), the chronicle of a soul-searching travel through the continent, and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch ( 1959 ), a more experimental work structured as a series of vignettes relating, among other things, the narrator's travels and experiments with hard drugs.

However, trail mix is also mentioned in Jack Kerouac's 1958 novel The Dharma Bums as the two main characters describe their planned meals in their preparation for a hiking trip.

Zoot also played on some of Jack Kerouac's recordings.

Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2006.

His mambo records and the joyous dancing they caused are described in a late chapter of Jack Kerouac's seminal novel, On the Road ( 1957 ).

In The Dharma at Big Sur, Adam's draws from literary texts such as Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder and Henry Miller to illustrate the California landscape.

* Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums ( 1958 )

Bridgeport plays a small role in the novel The Dharma Bums ( 1958 ) by Jack Kerouac ; it is the place from where the main characters Ray Smith, Japhy Ryder and Henry Morley start their climb to the nearby Matterhorn Peak.

* The novels of Jack Kerouac, including On the Road ( 1957 ) and The Dharma Bums ( 1958 ).

* Jack Kerouac-The Dharma Bums

American beat generation writer Jack Kerouac became a well-known literary Buddhist, for his roman à clef The Dharma Bums and other works.

Rexroth appears in Jack Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums as the character Reinhold Cacoethes.

After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets ( including Allen Ginsberg ) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums.

A short fictional account of this event forms the second chapter of Jack Kerouac's 1958 novel The Dharma Bums.

* Kerouac, Jack The Dharma Bums, ( New York: Harcourt Brace, 1958 ).

* Jack Kerouac, whose books The Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels and Lonesome Traveler include accounts of his job as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascades during the summer of 1956.

Pretty Girls Make Graves was a post-punk band, formed in Seattle in 2001, named after The Smiths song of the same name ( which itself was named after a quote from Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums ).

He appears, in barely fictionalized form, as the character " Warren Coughlin " in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, which includes an account of that reading.

The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac.

Jack Kerouac's On the Road ( 1957 ) and The Dharma Bums ( 1958 ) are fictionalized accounts of his travels across the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Shortly before " The Incident " is about to occur, Sayid and Jack pose as Dharma employees and attempt to smuggle a core piece of the hydrogen bomb to the Swan Station.

Jack and Sawyer eventually find Hurley and Locke at the Dharma Orchid station.

* Jack Kornfield audio from the DIY Dharma website

Jack Kerouac in The Dharma Bums describes a hike up and a run down the mountain.