The University of Massachusetts - Lowell, through its Center for Lowell History

and the Jack and Stella Kerouac Center for the Public Humanities,

is proud to announce the acquisition of the

This significant gift strengthens UMass Lowell’s leadership in Kerouac studies and highlights Jack Kerouac’s enduring influence on American literature, music and popular culture.

The new archive stems from the making of “One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur” (2008), an acclaimed documentary film chronicling Kerouac’s reckoning with fame through the lens of his searing novel “Big Sur” (1962), which he wrote in the wake of the fantastic success of “On the Road” (1957).

Curt Worden, director of “One Fast Move or I’m Gone,” and producer Gloria Bailen-Worden created and curated the materials and have now entrusted them to the university’s permanent Jack Kerouac Archive, housed at the Center for Lowell History and open to the public.