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Of the many biographies of Beat writer Jack Kerouac (1922–69), Nicosia's Memory Babe remains the most compelling. This new book, however, is not so much about the novelist as about a long-running legal battle with the Kerouac Estate, waged by Kerouac's daughter Jan and his nephew Paul Blake Jr., with support from Nicosia, over a forged will. Nicosia also accuses John Sampas, the estate's executor, of damaging Kerouac's literary reputation by selling off items in the archive to private buyers, thus...Log In or Sign Up to Read More