Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's On the Road is the most up-to-date and accurate account of the development of American writer Jack Kerouac's groundbreaking 1957 novel, On the Road. Using archival resources as the foundation of this book, Kerouac scholars Paul Maher Jr. and Stephanie Nikolopoulos have fashioned a gripping account of the internal and external experiences of Kerouac's literary development.