 Later, Kerouac lived with his parents in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, after they had also moved to New York.He wrote his first published novel, "The Town and the City", and began the famous "On the Road" around 1949 when living there.His friends jokingly called him "The Wizard of Ozone Park", alluding to Thomas Edison's nickname, "the Wizard of Menlo Park", and to the film "The Wizard of Oz".