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.
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