Short answers, pulled from the story.
Jack Kerouac was born on the 12th of March 1922 in a small house at 9 Lupine Road in Lowell, Massachusetts. He grew up in a French-Canadian household where his parents spoke only French until he learned English at the age of six.
Jack Kerouac completed On the Road in April 1951 by typing a continuous 120-foot scroll of tracing paper over 20 days. The novel was not published until 1957 after Viking Press accepted it following major revisions and the removal of sexually explicit passages.
Jack Kerouac died on the 20th of October 1969 at 5:15 the following morning at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. His cause of death was an internal hemorrhage caused by cirrhosis resulting from longtime alcohol abuse.
Jack Kerouac developed a style called spontaneous prose that used long connecting dashes instead of periods to mimic jazz improvisation. This approach was heavily influenced by bebop musicians such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonious Monk.
Jack Kerouac's mother Gabrielle inherited most of his estate after his death in 1969 while he was living with his third wife Stella Sampas Kerouac. His estate was worth only $91 at the time of his death despite the millions his work would eventually generate.