Jack Kerouac met his daughter for the first time when she was ten years old, when he took a blood test to prove or disprove his paternity.

[3] Jan Kerouac lived much of her early life in poverty, sometimes turning to prostitution to survive.

[4] She traveled widely, living in South America, Europe, and many different cities in the United States.

[4] Encouraged by Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia, she entered into a lawsuit in the 1990s that proposed the will of Jack's mother, Gabrielle Kerouac, was a forgery, in the hope winning could expand her legal rights to her father's works and physical property.

[9] On June 5, 1996, Kerouac died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a day after her spleen was removed.