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John Heling Shen-Sampas serves as the literary executor for the estate of Jack Kerouac.

Since 2017, Shen-Sampas has been, in partnership with the University of Massachusetts Lowell, preserving and archiving the entirety of Jack Kerouac's works and the history of the literary estate management. His on-going effort to support the preservation of Kerouac's studies includes a donation of the most comprehensive archive on Kerouac to date and financial sponsorship in the archival work of the collection.

Shen-Sampas serves on the board of the Jack and Stella Kerouac Center for the Public Humanities.

Shen-Sampas founded the Kerouac Society. Shen-Sampas published and exhibited a large swath of Kerouac’s paintings in Europe.

References

  1. Archives, University. "John Shen-Sampas Offers Insider Insight into The Jack Kerouac Estate". University Archives. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
  2. "Jack Kerouac | Visions of Kerouac: The John Sampas Collection". Retrieved 2022-09-13.
  3. "Bringing It All Back Home". www.alumni.uml.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
  4. "The Jack and Stella Kerouac Center for the Public Humanities | UMass Lowell". www.uml.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
  5. "Kerouac Conference | Research | UMass Lowell". www.uml.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
  6. "How Jack Kerouac left a legacy of rarely seen 'beat paintings'". The Independent. 2018-09-06. Retrieved 2022-09-13.


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