Jack Kerouac’s First Draft Of ‘On The Road,’ A 121-Foot Scroll He Typed In Three Weeks In 1951, Is About To Be Sold At Auction
All That's Interesting | 06.02.2026 05:45
In April 1951, Jack Kerouac feverishly typed out the first complete draft of his masterpiece On the Road over just a three-week period. He famously taped sheets of paper together into a makeshift scroll so that he didn’t have to stop writing in order to switch out the pages in his typewriter. Now, this original manuscript of the novel that defined the Beat Generation is heading to auction.
