Kerouac's 120 Foot Long Manuscript for 'On The Road'
I had heard about Kerouac using a
scroll to hammer out manuscripts but I hadn't actually ever seen it. His editor must have been thrilled.
The legend behind the writing of Jack Kerouac's On the Road is well known, if not entirely accurate. Fueled by inspiration, coffee and Benzedrine, Kerouac sat down at his typewriter and -- in one burst of creative energy -- wrote the novel that would make him the voice of his generation in just 20 days, typing it out on a single, 120-foot-long scroll.
