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"""Atop an Underwood is indispensable for the reader who wants to chart the development of one of our talented writers."" -- ""Chicago Tribune"" ""It's good to dip into the early writings and see the confident, hopeful Jack Kerouac who was the source of his own dreams."" -- ""Philadelphia Inquirer"" ""Kerouac's intense desire to be a writer hit him early and stayed with him his entire life. This passion colors all of his early stuff...And his themes are all here: America, travel, jazz, the delicate presence of death...The passion Kerouac brought to all of his writing is here."" -- ""American Book Review"" ""Offers a wonderful glimpse into the author's formative years."" -- ""Boston Herald"" ""Provide[s] a tantalizing glimpse of the future Beat generation originator, spanning Kerouac's adolescence and his first years in New York."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""This is a Jack Kerouac developing his skills, awaiting his muse."" -- ""Cleveland Plain Dealer"""

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"Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the ""Beat generation"" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of ""one vast book,"" The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven."

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