 The project provides aspiring writers to live in the house that Jack Kerouac lived in while writing his 1958 novel "The Dharma Bums", rent free for 3 months.Kerouac lived in this home at the time "On the Road" (1957) made him a national sensation, and it was in this home that Kerouac wrote his follow-up, "The Dharma Bums", over the course of eleven days and nights.The house represents a critical juncture in Kerouac’s life, when the success of "On the Road" provided him with nationwide critical acclaim and commercial success, and pushed him and the other members of the Beat Generation into the spotlight.