Jack Kerouac's Cape Cod home sold

The Cape Cod house where Jack Kerouac once lived has been sold for $300,000 (€241,706), but the new co-owner said she wasn’t familiar with the Beat Generation author.

“He has a fan now,” Ida Perry told the Cape Cod Times of Kerouac, whose 1957 road-trip novel, On the Road, is considered a classic.

Perry, 40, and her mother, Gladysann Lewis, bought the house last Wednesday. They expect to move into their new home this week.

The 1,344-square-foot, single-storey house on Bristol Avenue where Kerouac lived in 1966 was put on the market five months ago by then-owner James Upton.

“We did a walk-through and I was like, ‘This place is perfect,”’ Perry said.

Kerouac married his third wife, childhood acquaintance Stella Sampas, at the house on November 18, 1966.

In 1967, Kerouac moved back to Lowell, where he was born. An alcoholic, he died two years later in Florida at age 47.