Desolation Peak

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the "Beat generation" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of "one vast book," The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.

Christian Rummel is a classically trained stage actor with over twenty-five years of experience. He has narrated over 300 audiobooks and is the voice of Ruin in Call of Duty: Black Ops III, COD: Black Ops 4, and COD: Mobile, as well as the voice of Stryker in COD: Black Ops Cold War and COD: Warzone. He has also done voice-over for film, voicing the demon Balban in The Exorcism of God and one of the Souls of the Damned in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. He lives in Los Angeles with his pack: wife, dog, and cat.