John H. Shen-Sampas

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John Heling Shen-Sampas serves as the literary executor for the estate of Jack Kerouac. [1]

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. [2] 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. [3]

Shen-Sampas serves on the board of the Jack and Stella Kerouac Center for the Public Humanities. [4]

Shen-Sampas founded the Kerouac Society. [5] Shen-Sampas published and exhibited a large swath of Kerouac’s paintings in Europe. [6]

Shen-Sampas earned his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School [7] and M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. He received his B.S. in Applied Mathematics and M.S. in Operations Research from Columbia University.[ citation needed ]

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