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杰克·凯鲁亚克（Jack Kerouac）将青春的大部分时间都花在尝试、失败、去适应—他从哥伦比亚大学退学，接着又没有完成海军新兵训练营，受到军事纪律处罚。
凯鲁亚克的小说《在路上》大部分是自传性的，讲述了一系列跨国公路旅行，描述了两名好友穿越美国以追求快乐、音乐和了解美国梦的意义。
《在路上》中描绘的冲动的、光荣的流浪之旅以及凯鲁亚克的后期作品使他成为“垮掉的一代”中最著名的作家之一，“垮掉的一代”是20世纪50年代的新一代年轻的叛逆者们。
有一本书曾经启发你去旅行或者做使人兴奋的事吗？ 要了解更多关于杰克·凯鲁亚克和他带动的垮掉的运动，请看（英文）：http://www.beatmuseum.org/kerouac/jackkerouac.html
#AmericanAuthors# Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac spent much of his youth trying, and failing, at fitting in—he dropped out of Colombia University, and then went on to fail Navy boot camp, chafing under military discipline.
Kerouac’s mainly autobiographical novel On The Road, about a series of cross-country road trips, described two friends traversing the American landscape in pursuit of fun, music, and making sense of the American dream.
The, impulsive, glorious wanderlust that characterizes On the Road, as well as Kerouac’s later works, made him one of the best known writers of the “Beat Generation”—a new generation of young 1950s iconoclasts.
Has a book ever inspired you to travel, or to do something exciting?
To learn more about Jack Kerouac and the Beat movement he inspired see (eng): http://www.beatmuseum.org/kerouac/jackkerouac.html
