Windblown world the journals of jack kerouac 1947 1954 by jack kerouac 415 rating details 683 ratings 41 reviews jack kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels yet it is only his private journals in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking that reveal to us the real . In windblown world distinguished historian douglas brinkley has gathered together a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of kerouacs intrepid life beginning in 1947 when he was twenty five years old and ending in 1954 truly a self portrait of the artist as a young man these journals show a sensitive soul charting his . Us the real kerouac in windblown world distinguished americanist douglas brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of kerouacaeurtms life 1947 to 1954 here is kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial friendships with allen. In windblown world distinguished americanist douglas brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of kerouacs life 1947 to 1954 here is kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial friendships with allen ginsberg william s burroughs and neal cassady. In windblown world distinguished historian douglas brinkley has gathered together a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of kerouacs intrepid life beginning in 1947 when he was twenty five years old and ending in 1954 truly a self portrait of the artist as a young man these journals show a sensitive soul charting his own progress as a writer and responding to his most