Gerald Nicosia

Gerald Nicosia is a biographer, historian, poet, playwright, and novelist. His biography of Jack Kerouac, Memory Babe , won the Distinguished Young Writer Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters while still a work-in-progress. Called a "great book" by Allen Ginsberg and "by far the best of the many books published about Jack Kerouac's life and work" by William Burroughs, it is widely regarded as the definitive work on Kerouac.

Gerald Nicosia is a biographer, historian, poet, playwright, and novelist. His biography of Jack Kerouac, Memory Babe , won the Distinguished Young Writer Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters while still a work-in-progress. Called a "great book" by Allen Ginsberg and "by far the best of the many books published about Jack Kerouac's life and work" by William Burroughs, it is widely regarded as the definitive work on Kerouac. See less