Legends of the Underwood #11: Jack Kerouac

In August 1963, Kerouac became involved with a beautiful black woman, Alene Lee. She later became the model for "Mardou Fox" in The Subterraneans, which Jack wrote in three days but took five years to publish.

—Harvey Pekar writing in The Beats: A Graphic History (with Ed Piskor; Hill and Wang, 2009)

(Eleventh in a series.)