Use my name
Subtitle: Jack Kerouac's forgotten families
By: Jim Jones.
Publisher: ECW Press; Distributed in the U.S. by LPC Group
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Toronto; Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969; Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 -- Family; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Beat generation -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: By looking sympathetically yet realistically at the lives of five people who knew Kerouac intimately, Jones creates a new picture of the Beat legacy that foregrounds the "minor characters" and accurately depicts the heroism of their not-so-ordinary lives. Long before the trend of debunking Kerouac and the Beats had begun, Jones perceived that there were other stories to be told.

Use My Name presents the saga of five people whose lives were joined, often in emotional or legal conflict, by their relationship with the same man, the King of the Beatniks.