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Article: Letter: Kerouac's legacy
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2003
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R obert Chalmers ("Dharma Bum Deal", Sunday Review, 24 August)
refers to Jack Kerouac's daughter Jan Kerouac as a "respected
novelist who'd been a prostitute and heroin addict," while neglecting
to mention that her prostitution and heroin use were at the age of
13, when she was abandoned by her mother on the streets of the Lower
East Side; also she was never addicted to the drug. He said that
"eventually she was banking $100,000 a year". Jan never banked
anything. She died with no money in the bank and owing the Internal
Revenue Service about $60,000 for back taxes. When she died, John
Sampas, who administers the Kerouac estate, ...