Kerouac later described the family's home life: "My father comes home from his printing shop and undoes his tie and removes 1920s vest, and sits himself down at hamburger and boiled potatoes and bread and butter, and with the kiddies and the good wife." Leo owned his own print shop, Spotlight Print, in downtown Lowell, and Gabrielle, known to her children as Memere, was a homemaker. Kerouac's parents, Leo and Gabrielle, were immigrants from Quebec, Canada Kerouac learned to speak French at home before he learned English at school.
A thriving mill town in the mid-19th century, Lowell had become, by the time of Kerouac's birth, a down-and-out burg where unemployment and heavy drinking prevailed. Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac on March 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Kerouac died on October 21, 1969, from an abdominal hemorrhage, at age 47. The book became an American classic that defined the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac's writing career began in the 1940s but didn't meet with commercial success until 1957 when his book On the Road was published.
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