Kerouac Scroll Goes ‘On The Road’
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007In April of 1951, Jack Kerouac fed the first of a series of twelve-foot-long sheets of onion skin paper into his typewriter, and proceeded on a stream of consciousness, single-spaced, writing marathon. When he was done, three-weeks later, he had produced the Beat generation classic, ‘On the Road‘, on a Scotch-taped continuous roll of paper, 120 feet long.
Fifty years later, the scroll was sold at auction for $2.4 million dollars to Jim Isray, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts football team.
This now famous scroll (or at least half of it) is now on display at the New York Public Library as part of a thirteen-stop, four-year national tour of museums and libraries
You can read the beginning of the actual unedited scroll HERE
