Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation

by Samuel Charters and Ann Charters

Book Overview

John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were--in Holmes's words--"Brother Souls." Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in a postwar American society that for them had lost its direction. Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac spontaneously created the term "Beat Generation" to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496853741
• ISBN13: 9781496853745
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 464 Pages