Jack Kerouac born on March 12, 1922 success until 1957, when On the Road was published. He died on October 21, 1969. Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Kerouac, a French-Canadian child in working-class. He was a good sportsman playing American football in Lowell High School which earned him scholarship offers .He did not complete his education in Columbia University due to a soured football career. Jack joined the United States Merchant Marine he joined the United States Navy in World War 2. After that, he tried to living as a writer. At this time, he decided to travel and write a book On the Road . Jack was troubled by severe drug abuse in the late 1951. He took to alcohol and drugs heavily.he tried to beat alcoholism.but it not success because the surgery found his liver completely destroyed due to years of drinking.so he died at the age of only 47.