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Now a classic, Kerouac's Crooked Road was one of the first critical works on the legendary Beat writer to analyze his work as serious literary art, placing it in the broader American literary tradition with canonical writers like Herman Melville and Mark Twain. Author Tim Hunt explores Kerouac's creative process and puts his work in conversation with classic American literature and with critical theory. This edition includes a new preface by the author, which takes a discerning look at the implications of the 2007 publication of the original typewrit

Beats (Persons) in literature. --- Autobiographical fiction, American --- Beat generation in literature --- History and criticism. --- Kerouac, Jack, --- Beat generation in literature.