Jack Kerouac, Québécois
"Bien sûr. Kerouac's given name wasn't Jack; it was Jean-Louis. His mother tongue wasn't English; it was French. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the son of immigrants from Quebec; on his mother's side, he was related to [separatist leader] René Lévesque." And he wrote two unpublished novellas in French, one titled Sur le chemin (On the Road). The Walrus (Canada) September 2009

Posted September 1, 2009 09:19 PM