"So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?" -- Jack Kerouac from the last paragraph of "On The Road."
I don't know when I became a big fan of Jack Kerouac? It wasn't when his most famous novel, "On The Road" was published in 1959. I was too busy then being a new husband, father and Air Force Lieutenant. But, sometime much later I read his first book, "The Town and the City", published in 1950, and something clicked. His poetic descriptions of the feelings a kid has on low-autumn-sun afternoons matched mine. Here's an example: "So when the sun of October slopes in late afternoon, the children scurry home from school, ... they leap and dash in the powerful winds and scream with delight. ... There are great steaming suppers to be eaten in kitchens of home as the raw October gloom gathers outside ..."
There is no great professionally done Kerouac Web site yet, but the one I link below contains most of the basic information about the author and his writing and is the work of a single fan who obviously admires Kerouac and has spent a great deal of time developing the site.