Certain authors and books have the edge, discover 7 classic writers who travelled by road and rail.
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Jack Kerouac
On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use.
Jenny Diski
An English writer. She had a troubled childhood, but was taken in and mentored by the novelist Doris Lessing. She wrote Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking.
John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a 1962 travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck. It depicts a 1960 road trip around the United States made by Steinbeck, in the company of his standard poodle Charley.
Bill Bryson
Best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. Down Under, A Walk in the Woods, Neither Here Nor There, Notes from a Small Island. The daddy of humorous travelogues.
Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, who wrote The Great Railway Bazaar.
The Raven Brothers
British twin brothers, Simon and Chris Raven. The travel writing duo are best-known for the epic road trip classic Driving the Trans-Siberian.
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