On the Road

On the Road is a novel by Jack Kerouac, published by Viking Press in 1957. This largely autobiographical work, written as a stream of consciousness and based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America, is often considered the defining work of the postwar jazz-, poetry-, and drug-affected Beat Generation.

Publication data

• On The Road, Jack Kerouac, Penguin Books; Reprint edition (January 1, 1991), 307 pages, ISBN 0140042598