Jack Kerouac. Folklore and Myth in the making?

Question

I grew up in Kerouacs home town. I talked to and worked for some of the bar owners and bartenders who knew him. I used to drink once in a while with Fr. Spike.. So I heard some good and bad stories.
As time goes by his real life story seems to grow larger somehow and gets entangled with his fictional characters. Is this the prossess of an American folktale of an American hero in the making? A fusion of what was and what we want it to have been?

Answer 1

Things could become Folklore or Myths in those days. No longer. The theologians will not allow such a Kerouac in any kind of positive light.

Answer 2

I confess I know little about the man himself, but I have read some of his literature.
I thought it rather tedious and dull to read. I don't think he compares with Steinbeck or Hemmingway, so it is unlikely he be anything other than a local hero in time to come.

Answer 3

Too much spped burned out what could have been decent literature and a promising future, like Richard Brautigan, when he wanted to keep his head straight he was amusing