Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 2: 1957-1969 - Paperbackby Jack Kerouac (Author), Ann Charters (Editor) The first volume of Jack Kerouac's selected letters, published in 1995, was hailed as an important and revealing addition to Kerouac scholarship. This second and final volume, comprising letters written between 1957, the year On the Road was published, and the day before his death in 1969 at age forty seven, tells Kerouac's life story through his candid correspondence with friends, confidants, and