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Article: Joy of editing Jack Kerouac manuscript.
- Article from:
- Eastbourne Herald (Eastbourne, England)
- Article date:
- September 7, 2007
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The famous scroll manuscript of a bestselling novel has been edited by an Eastbourne man.
The previously unpublished first full length draft of Jack Kerouac's novel On The Road was written in three weeks in April 1951.
A later version went on to become one of the best-selling novels of the 20th century.
Dr Howard Cunnell, born in Eastbourne in 1964, was invited to edit the 50th anniversary edition of the novel.
The former pupil of Eastbourne Grammar School said to be asked was a major accolade, prompted by a paper he gave at the USA Jack Kerouac Conference on Beat Literature in October 2005.
He said, "Reading Kerouac's great ...