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This author was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on March 12, 1922. He was the son of French-Canadian parents and learned English as a second language. In high school, he was a star football player and won a scholarship to Columbia University. It was not until 1957, when he published On the Road, an autobiographical tale of his wanderings, that he became famous as a seminal figure of the Beat Generation. – This Day in History

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