JAN KEROUAC, 44, DAUGHTER OF BEATNIK HERO.Byline: Richard Benke Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Jan Kerouac Jan Kerouac (nee Janet Michelle Kerouac) (b. February 16, 1952, Albany, New York – d. June 5, 1996, Albuquerque, New Mexico) was a writer and the only child of beat generation author Jack Kerouac and Joan Haverty Kerouac. , the novelist daughter of Beat Generation chronicler and cult hero Jack Kerouac Noun 1. Jack Kerouac - United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969) Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac, Kerouac , has died after a long battle with kidney disease Kidney Disease Definition Kidney disease is a general term for any damage that reduces the functioning of the kidney. Kidney disease is also called renal disease. . She was 44. Jan Kerouac died Wednesday evening at Albuquerque's Lovelace Medical Center, a day after having her spleen removed, Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia Gerald Nicosia, born November 18 1949 in Berwyn, Illinois, is a freelance journalist, interviewer, and literary critic. He received a B.A. and an M.A. in English and American Literature, with Highest Distinction in English, from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1971 said Thursday. She suffered kidney failure kidney failure or renal failure Partial or complete loss of kidney function. Acute failure causes reduced urine output and blood chemical imbalance, including uremia. Most patients recover within six weeks. five years ago and had been on dialysis ever since, administering self-dialysis as often as four times a day, Nicosia said in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . Born Feb. 16, 1952, in Albany, N.Y., Jan Kerouac wrote in much the same style as her father, with ``very vivid sensory evocations,'' Nicosia said. Her ``Baby Driver,'' published in 1981, dealt with her childhood in New York's lower East Side during the turbulent 1960s. ``Trainsong'' (1988) was about her travels after that first book. It's named after the community in Eugene, Ore., where her mother lived. She had been working on ``Parrot Fever parrot fever: see psittacosis. ,'' about the 1991 death of her mother, Joan Haverty, Kerouac's second wife. Nicosia said he would like to help see it published posthumously. ``Her mother's death hit her really hard. She was her last real close connection, somebody she could open up to, trust in,'' he said. Jan Kerouac met her father only twice - once during a paternity The state or condition of a father; the relationship of a father. English and U.S. Common Law have recognized the importance of establishing the paternity of children. lawsuit filed by her mother when she was 10. She spent her final years promoting his legacy and battling for control of his archives. ``Her main intent was to put it into a museum or a library and preserve it forever. She was ill,'' Nicosia said, ``but she was on this quest to do something for her father's memory. Now she won't get to see how it turns out.'' In 1994, she sued relatives of Kerouac's last wife, Stella Sampas. She contended the will of her grandmother, Gabrielle Kerouac, leaving her son's effects to Sampas, was a forgery. Without a will, the estate would have gone to her two grandchildren, Jan Kerouac and Paul Blake Jr., her daughter's son. Sampas got the notebooks, teletype rolls and parchment scrolls on which Kerouac wrote ``On the Road'' and laid down the first rumblings of post-war alienation that set the tone for the so-called Beat Generation of the 1950s. Jan Kerouac's lawyer, Tom Brill of Newport Beach, said trial is still tentatively set for September in St. Petersburg, Fla. Nicosia said the absence of her father, who died of alcoholism in 1969, ``was a big hole in her life.'' ``Jan loved him very much and was haunted by not having him and wanting to get to know him, trying to follow in his footsteps,'' Nicosia said. He said she will be cremated and had hoped for burial in Nashua, N.H. She had battled in vain to have her father's remains moved from Lowell, Mass., to the Kerouac family plot in Nashua. She is survived by two half-sisters, a half-brother and a cousin. Twice divorced, she was unmarried at the time of her death and had no children, Nicosia said. |
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