Author was just 20 when he penned The Sea Is My Brother in 1942
(NEWSER) - Jack Kerouac's first novel is hitting bookstores 42 years after the death of the Beat Generation icon and nearly 70 years after he wrote it. The On the Road author was just 20 years old when he wrote The Sea Is My Brother, which deals with his experiences as a merchant seaman. Kerouac had referred to the work in a few letters, but experts were surprised when his brother-in-law discovered the full manuscript in the writer's archive. More»
