Kerouac’s 121-foot scroll of On the Road goes to auction for up to $4M

Jack Kerouac’s original typescript scroll for On the Road (Photograph: Christie’s)

In April 1951, Jack Kerouac taped together sheets of tracing paper to avoid the interruption of changing pages, then typed the first draft of On the Road in a three-week burst. The scroll — 121 feet of continuous typescript with no paragraph breaks, using the real names of…