He started his career in writing after he quit school and began traveling by ship to work his position as a merchant seaman. ... On the Road was a stylistic breakthrough for Kerouac who had developed a theory of writing he called, spontaneous prose. ... "In 1961, Jack Kerouac attempted to break his drinking habit and rediscover his writing talents-(Jack Kerouac) Kerouac's drinking impaired his writing, and he was no longer taken seriously. ... Their writing expressed profound dissatisfaction with contemporary American society..."... He brought society together with his unique style and cr...

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While there he nurtured his writing skills by having a large involvement in the school newspaper. ... He kept journal to keep track of his thoughts and practice his writing skills. ... Baraka commented on the books in a interview with Kimberly Benston, published in Boundary 2: "I was really writing defensively. ... And saw the revolution that was going down there and the many intellectuals who where making stride trough their writing to show their feelings about "Cuba Libre." ... The Black arts era, both in terms of creative and theoretical writing is the most important one in black litera...

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What I liked was the writing, or coarse, and the energy that was in it, the evocation of the people."" ... The Beat Generation was a group of writers and freethinkers who felt they were finally free of the stronghold on poets by universities and the writing industry that was "draining the imaginative life out of some many intellectuals of the world- (Snyder, Place in Space). ... They often used marijuana and cheap wine to fuel their creative energy in writing and other forms of art. ...

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On graduating he received the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship that was a scholarship for the Creative Writing program at Stanford ("About One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"). ... This is where his inspiration for writing One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest started ("Kesey, Ken"). ...

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