Charles Shuttleworth

Charles Shuttleworth is senior editor of Sal Paradise Press. As such, he edited Desolation Peak , published in 2022, which consists of Kerouac's writing during his two-month stint as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service in the North Cascades in 1956, as well as Self-Portrait (co-edited with Paul Maher, Jr.), a blend of fiction and nonfiction spanning Kerouac's entire adult life, from a journal written at age seventeen to autobiographical reflections a few years before his death, chosen for...See more

Charles Shuttleworth is senior editor of Sal Paradise Press. As such, he edited Desolation Peak , published in 2022, which consists of Kerouac's writing during his two-month stint as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service in the North Cascades in 1956, as well as Self-Portrait (co-edited with Paul Maher, Jr.), a blend of fiction and nonfiction spanning Kerouac's entire adult life, from a journal written at age seventeen to autobiographical reflections a few years before his death, chosen for the consistent high quality of the writing as well as the personal revelations they contain. Shuttleworth has been teaching classes on Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation for the past thirty years, currently at the Harker School in San Jose, California. See less