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Jack Kerouac

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Bibliography

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Novels:

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  • The Town and the City (written 1946–1949; published 1950)

  • On the Road (written 1951; published 1957)

  • The Subterraneans (written 1953; published 1958)

  • The Dharma Bums (written November 1957; published 1958)

  • Doctor Sax (written June 1952; published 1959)

  • Maggie Cassidy (written Jan. 2, 1953; published 1959)

  • Tristessa (written summer 1955 and fall 1956; published 1960)

  • Lonesome Traveler (1960)

  • Book of Dreams (written 1952–1960; published 1960)

  • Big Sur (written October 1961; published 1962)

  • Visions of Gerard (written January 1956; published 1963)

  • Desolation Angels (written fall 1956 and summer 1961; published 1965)

  • Satori in Paris (1966)

  • Vanity of Duluoz (written 1967; published 1968)

 

Posthumous fiction:

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  • The Sea Is My Brother (written 1942; first published in Slovak translation 2010 Bratislava, Slovakia, European Union: Artfórum)

  • The Haunted Life and Other Writings, Novel (written 1944; published 2014)

  • Orpheus Emerged, novella (written 1944–1945; published 2000)

  • And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, with William S. Burroughs (written 1945; published 2008)

  • La vie est d'hommage, edition of all previously unpublished French writings, includes some non-fiction (written 1950-1965; published 2016)

  • "The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings" (1946-1968; published 2016)

  • Visions of Cody (written 1951–1952; excerpts published December 1959; novel published 1972)

  • Pic (written 1951 and 1969, published 1971)

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Poetry:

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  • Pull My Daisy (late 1940s)

  • Mexico City Blues (1955; published 1959)

  • The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1956; published 1960) (meditations, koans, poems)

  • Scattered Poems (1945–1968; published 1971)

  • Book of Sketches (1952–1957)

  • Old Angel Midnight (1956; published 1973)

  • Trip Trap: Haiku on the Road from SF to NY (1959; published 1973) (with Albert Saijo and Lew Welch)

  • Heaven and Other Poems (1957–1962; published 1977)

  • San Francisco Blues (1954; published 1983)

  • Pomes All Sizes (compiled 1960; published 1992)

  • Book of Blues (1954–1961)

  • Book of Haikus (published 2003)

  • Collected Poems (published 2012, volume 231 in Library of America) ISBN 9781598531947

  • Old Angel Midnight (City Lights Publishers, 2016 edition)

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Other Work and Non-fiction:

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  • Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (1936–1943; published 1999)

  • Good Blonde & Others (1955; published 1993)

  • Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha (1955; published 2008)

  • Some of the Dharma (1953–1956; published 1997)

  • Beat Generation, play (1957, published 2005)

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Letter, Journals, and Interviews:

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  • Dear Carolyn: Letters to Carolyn Cassady (1983) (1000 copies Edited By Arthur and Kit Knight) ISBN 0-934660-06-9

  • Charters, Ann, ed. (1995). Jack Kerouac : selected letters, 1940–1956. New York: Viking.

  • Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1957-1969

  • Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac (1947–1954)

  • Safe In Heaven Dead (1990) (Interview fragments published by Hanuman Books)

  • Conversations with Jack Kerouac (Interviews)

  • Empty Phantoms (Interviews)

  • Departed Angels: The Lost Paintings

  • Door Wide Open (2000) (by Joyce Johnson. Includes letters from Jack Kerouac)

  • Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (2010)

  • Charters, Ann, ed. (1995). The portable Jack Kerouac

 

Jack Kerouac bibliography

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