Columbia alumni have made an indelible mark in the field of American poetry and literature, with such people as Jack Kerouac, one of the pioneers of the Beat Generation, and Langston Hughes, a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance, having both attended the university.

The album ’ s title song was inspired by Jack Kerouac ’ s book, The Lonesome Traveller in which Kerouac tells the story of America ’ s “ homeless brothers ,” or hobos.

The Village ( and surrounding New York City ) would later play central roles in the writings of, among others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, Rod McKuen, and Dylan Thomas, who collapsed at the Chelsea Hotel and died at St. Vincents Hospital at 170 West 12th Street, in the Village after drinking at the White Horse Tavern on November 5, 1953.

From his peers he developed a taste for counterculture: he and his friends would steal the records and books of their older siblings – William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Mothers of Invention.

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.

Spengler's vision of the cyclical nature of civilization and the contemporaneity of the end of the Western European cycle led William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg to look for the seeds of the next cycle in the communities of which they were a part.

From the second half of the 1950s, Beat Generation writers like William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg wrote about and took drugs, including cannabis and Benzedrine, raising awareness and helping to popularise their use.

He enjoyed reading works by the thinkers of his generation like Timothy Leary and Jack Kerouac, also dabbling in some LSD usage.

A fan of Bob Dylan, Lord Buckley, Jack Kerouac, Louis Armstrong, Howlin ' Wolf, and Charles Bukowski, Waits began developing his own idiosyncratic musical style.

Waits described the album as: ... a comprehensive study of a number of aspects of this search for the center of Saturday night, which Jack Kerouac relentlessly chased from one end of this country to the other, and I've attempted to scoop up a few diamonds of this magic that I see.

The album is also notable for containing a number of covers of songs by other artists, including The Ramones (" The Return of Jackie and Judy " and " Danny Says "), Daniel Johnston (" King Kong "), Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (" What Keeps Mankind Alive "), and Leadbelly (" Ain't Goin ' Down to the Well " and " Goodnight Irene "), as well as renditions of works by poets and authors admired by Waits, such as Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac and a previously released duet with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse entitled " Dog Door ".

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** Jack Kerouac, American author ( b. 1922 )

** Jack Kerouac, American author ( d. 1969 )

During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.

His writing influenced many subsequent novelists such as Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Benito Pérez Galdós, Marie Corelli, Henry James, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino, and philosophers such as Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.

He notes that those born in the years before the actual boom were often the most influential people among boomers ; for example, The Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones Charlie Watts, he was born on June 2, 1941 to and writers like Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg who were considerably older than the boomer generation.

* Jack Kerouac ( in On the Road and arguably more so in Visions of Cody )

Writers such as Hermann Hesse and Jack Kerouac, in the West, and the hippie generation of the late 1960s and early 1970s led to a re-discovery of Buddhism.

As well as his love for music, he was also a voracious reader, and his literary inspirations included Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Robert Burns and Dylan Thomas.

Politics tended to be liberal ; with support for causes such as desegregation ( although many of the figures associated with the original Beat movement, particularly Jack Kerouac, embraced libertarian / conservative ideas ).

As a result, the books were frequently smuggled into the States, where they would prove to be a major influence on the new Beat generation of American writers ( most notably Jack Kerouac ) some of whom would adopt stylistic and thematic principles found in Miller's oeuvre.

Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation ; Kerouac also provided improvised narration.

John and Roy Boulting also wrote and directed a series of successful satires, including Private's Progress ( 1956 ) and I'm All Right, Jack ( 1959 ).

Despite his three titles, and although John Cooper considered him " the greatest ", Formula One journalist Adam Cooper wrote in 1999 that Brabham is never listed among the Top 10 of all time, noting that " Stirling Moss and Jim Clark dominated the headlines when Jack was racing, and they still do ".

" During the same year, Jack Stillinger claimed that " Coleridge wrote only a few poems of the first rank – perhaps no more than a dozen, all told – and he seems to have taken a very casual attitude toward them ... he kept Kubla Khan in manuscript for nearly twenty years before offering it to the public ' rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the grounds of any supposed poetic merits '".

The convention is named for Sam Stayman, who wrote the first published description in 1945, but its inventors were two other players: the British expert Jack Marx in 1939, who published it only in 1946, and Stayman's regular partner George Rapée in 1945.

Author Jack Higgins wrote the foreword and US-French radio-operator, Jean-Claude Guiet, who had accompanied her on the mission in the Limousin, wrote the introduction.

During the 1940s Gelbart also wrote for Jack Paar and Bob Hope.

However, Jack Mathews, in the Los Angeles Times, wrote that the film was " about as much fun as a neighborhood bar on a Tuesday night.

Jack Kirwan wrote in the National Review that the novel is " about two men and two women in a time machine safari through this and other universes.

* Jack Whyte wrote A Dream of Eagles during the 1990s and 2000s.

In his review for Newsweek magazine, Jack Kroll wrote, " Allen's growth in every department is lovely to behold.

Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins wrote most of the material, with significant additional contributions from, at various times, Jon Canter, Richard Curtis, Terence Dackombe, Michael Fenton Stevens, Jack ( then John ) Docherty and Moray Hunter, and the various musical elements provided by Philip Pope.

In 2006 McFarlane announced plans for Spawn / Batman with artist Greg Capullo, which McFarlane wrote and inked, which paid tribute to Jack Kirby.

In addition, Preston wrote men's adventure novels under the pseudonyms of Mike McCray, Preston MacAdam, and Jack Hilt ( pen names that he shared with other authors ).

For his first, he wrote about the seventeenth century pirate John Ward aka Jack Ward.

Shawn initially alienates Jack due to the fact that Shawn wrote him a letter everyday, but Jack never responded to them.

According to a 1933 letter that Jack wrote to Will H. Hays, then president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Zanuck requested a higher salary and " indicated his desire to raise the salaries of the actors and personnel in the motion pictures we were producing ".

Animated characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig, while embraced by cartoon lovers, " were always stepchildren at Warner Bros ." As biographer Bob Thomas wrote, " Jack Warner ... considered cartoons no more than an extraneous service provided to exhibitors who wanted a full program for their customers.

Bakshi wrote a poem influenced by Jack Kerouac, jazz, the Beat Generation and Brooklyn that served as the narration, which was spoken by Harvey Keitel.

* Jack Trevor Story wrote a long dramatised life of Hereward for one of Tom Boardman's boys ' annuals.

* Jack Spicer wrote a book of poems called " After Lorca " ( 1957 ).