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"Jack Kerouac is big business; in 2010, one biographer estimated the value of his estate at $30 million.
So Kerouac-iana can create a stir, especially previously unknown documents directly related to the author himself.
That's what Skinner Inc. is offering up for auction: A newly discovered cache of letters by Jack Kerouac dating back to 1939. There are 17 complete letters, two postcards and seven "substantial fragments" that "sustained significant damage from a leaking paint can."
Typed and single-spaced, the letters often have a frenetic, breathless quality. Written by Kerouac as early as high school, they show, in part, the development of the writing style that would make him the most famous novelist of the Beat Generation.
Living in New York in 1941, Kerouac writes in one letter that he will return home to Lowell, Mass., for a weekend, typing in red ink, "because that is where the road began."
"Jack Kerouac is big business; in 2010, one biographer estimated the value of his estate at $30 million.
So Kerouac-iana can create a stir, especially previously unknown documents directly related to the author himself.
That's what Skinner Inc. is offering up for auction: A newly discovered cache of letters by Jack Kerouac dating back to 1939. There are 17 complete letters, two postcards and seven "substantial fragments" that "sustained significant damage from a leaking paint can."
Typed and single-spaced, the letters often have a frenetic, breathless quality. Written by Kerouac as early as high school, they show, in part, the development of the writing style that would make him the most famous novelist of the Beat Generation.
Living in New York in 1941, Kerouac writes in one letter that he will return home to Lowell, Mass., for a weekend, typing in red ink, "because that is where the road began."