The Grolier Club unveils the private world of Jack Kerouac in "Running Through Heaven"

An exhibition at The Grolier Club examines the origins of Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), one of the most influential American authors of the 20th century, whose unfiltered, spontaneous prose style had a tremendous impact on the world’s literature. On view in the Club’s second floor gallery from March 5 through May 16, 2026, Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac explores the writer’s personal life from childhood to his death through approximately 65 objects from the collection of Grolier Club member Jacob Loewentheil. The exhibition features many unpublished letters, several unknown and unpublished manuscripts, Kerouac’s copies of books that were important to his evolution as a writer, his own first editions of his best-known works, critical first editions, original drawings, classic and unknown photographs, and realia. An accompanying catalogue,