March 12

On this date in 1922, Jack Kerouac was born. In 1957, his novel On the Road was published.

From page 20:

I looked at the company. There were two young farmer boys from North Dakota
in red baseball caps, which is the standard North Dakota farmer-boy hat, and
they were headed for the harvests; their old men had given them leave to hit the road for a summer.

(March 12, is Kent Conrad's birthday, too. But how many books has he sold?)