Jack Kerouac was one of the original beats-a group of cutting edge writers and emerged during the1950s. Daring, rebellious,intelligen,and mobie the beats gave voice to a new generation. Kerouc’s best-know work is On the road, a novel inspired by cross-country road-tirps. The book was reputedly written in a full-throttle three-week creative frenzy . In fact , the original manuscript of On the Road is continuous scroll is typewritten , has on margins , on paragraph indents, and is single-spaced. It still exists ;it was purchased by a private collector in 2001, and can be viewed by the public whenever it is on tour. It was displayed at the New York public library in 2007 and at the university of texas at Austin in 2008. Once Kerouac typed the scroll in 1991, it was not snaped up by publishers. That was not to happen until 1957. After it was published, Though. The New York Times called On The Road “The beautifuliy executed,The cleares and most important utterance ” of Kerouac’s generation. On the fiftieth anniversary of On the Road’s pub-lication, fellow Beat figure Lawrence Ferlinghetti said, “The Road doesn’t exist anymore in America; there is this huge nostalgia for it. That’s one of the reasons On The Road is more popular than ever”