This is a wonderful article on a legendary writer who motivated many young people to get out on the road with his jazzy stream of consciousness prose. He didn't embrace the psychedelic movement that came afterwards, but he was definitely one of the voices that ushered it. My only recommendation to improve this article is to use quotes from his work to showcase why he was such a revolutionary writer. Here is an example from his most famous novel, On the Road:
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
That's a great point (and a great quote!). I guess I got so caught up in writing this that I forgot ;) But will remember it for future installments of the series!
Thank you for reading!