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Article: College professor examines Jack Kerouac's fiction in latest book
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- Daily Record, The Wooster, OH
- Article date:
- March 25, 2007
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By JOHN FINN
Director of Public Information
College of Wooster
WOOSTER -- Nancy Grace, professor of English at The College of
Wooster, takes a penetrating look at the fiction of America's most
prolific Beat Generation writer in her new book, "Jack Kerouac and
the Literary Imagination," published recently by Palgrave Macmillan.
"I have always been intrigued and puzzled by Kerouac," said Grace.
"Since my graduate school days, I've wondered why he is such an
iconic figure and why he is still so popular with so many people who
read and re-read his books."
Grace, a member of Wooster's faculty since 1987, has written and
edited three other books about Beat Generation literature, but this
project ...