A new home for The Dharma Bums
The Jack Kerouac Writers-in-Residence Project of Orlando is proud to share with Rollins College one of the very few literary treasures with a rich Orlando provenance, Kerouac's final typescript of his 1958 classic, The Dharma Bums. Produced here during Kerouac's last prolific period, this typescript features the editor's original blue pencil markings and Kerouac's handwritten comments on the front. We at the Kerouac Project are grateful for the passion Jonathan Miller and Phillip Deaver have shown to establish a new home for this one-of-a-kind typescript at the Olin Library. Our goal is to see it displayed and shared with students and scholars as an example of Kerouac's indomitable creative spirit while living in Orlando. We hope the Rollins community will further ...
Jack Kerouac lived in this home at the time On the Road made him a national sensation. And it was in this home that Kerouac wrote his follow-up, The Dharma Bums, during eleven frenetic days and nights. The Kerouac House, as it has come to be known, is now a living, literary tribute to one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. Like all the other places in Kerouac’s nomadic journey, he didn’t live here long. But the home represents a critical juncture in Kerouac’s life, when he made the transition from a 35-year-old nobody writer, to the bard of the Beat Generation.