Bibliography of Jack Kerouac
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Novels and Other Fiction
- The Sea is My BrotherThe Sea is My BrotherThe Sea is my Brother is the lost novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in 1942, but not published until 2011. In 1942, Kerouac served just eight days in the US Merchant Marine, but his brief service nonetheless inspired him to write Sea...
(1942; first published in Slovak translation 2010 Bratislava, Slovakia, European Union: Artfórum) - Orpheus EmergedOrpheus EmergedOrpheus Emerged is a novella written by Jack Kerouac in 1945 when he was at Columbia University. The novella was discovered after his death and published in 2002....
, novella (1944-1945; published 2002) - And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their TanksAnd the Hippos Were Boiled in Their TanksAnd the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. It was written in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became famous as leading figures of the Beat Generation, and remained unpublished for many years....
, with William S. BurroughsWilliam S. BurroughsWilliam Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th...
(1945; published 2008) - The Town and the CityThe Town and the CityThe Town and the City is a novel by Jack Kerouac, published by Harcourt Brace in 1950. This was the first major work published by Kerouac, who later became famous for his second novel On the Road . Like all of Jack Kerouac's major works, The Town and the City is essentially an autobiographical...
(1946-1949; published 1950) - On the RoadOn the RoadOn the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of...
(1947-1951; published 1957) La nuit est ma femme written in february-march 1951 in joual (quebecois French), 56 pages, still unpublished. - Visions of CodyVisions of CodyVisions of Cody is an experimental novel by Jack Kerouac. It was written in 1951-1952, and though not published in its entirety until 1973, it had by then achieved an underground reputation...
(1951-1952; published 1960) - PicPic (novel)Pic is a novella by Jack Kerouac, first published in 1971.Pic is the story of a small child, Pictorial Review Jackson, from North Carolina. When his grandfather, with whom he lives, dies, his older brother appears and plucks him from the dysfunctional home of his aunt...
, novella (1951 & 1969; published 1971) Sur le chemin written in decembre 1952 in joual (quebecois French), 60 pages, still unpublished. - Doctor SaxDoctor SaxDoctor Sax is a novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1959. Kerouac wrote it in 1952 while living with William S. Burroughs in Mexico City.-Plot summary:...
(1952; published 1959) - Book of DreamsBook of Dreams (novel)Book of Dreams is an experimental novel published by Jack Kerouac in 1960, culled from the dream journal he kept from 1952 to 1960. In it Kerouac tries to continue plot-lines with characters from his books as he sees them in his dreams...
(1952-1960; published 1960) - Maggie CassidyMaggie CassidyMaggie Cassidy is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, first published in 1959. It is a largely autobiographical work about Kerouac's early life in Lowell, Massachusetts from 1938 to 1939, and chronicles Kerouac's real-life relationship with teenage sweetheart Mary Carney. It is unique for...
(1953; published 1959) - The SubterraneansThe SubterraneansThe Subterraneans is a 1958 novella by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. It is a semi-fictional account of his short romance with an African American woman named Alene Lee in San Francisco in 1953. In the novel she is renamed "Mardou Fox," and described as a carefree spirit who frequents the...
, novella (1953; published 1958) - TristessaTristessaTristessa is a novella by Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac set in Mexico City. It is based on his relationship with a Mexican prostitute...
, novella (1955-1956; published 1960) - Visions of GerardVisions of GerardVisions of Gerard is a 1963 novel by American Beat writer Jack Kerouac. Unique among Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerard focuses on the scenes and sensations of childhood as evidenced in the tragically short yet happy life of his older brother, Gerard. Kerouac paints a picture of the boy as a...
(1956; published 1963) - Desolation AngelsDesolation Angels (novel)Desolation Angels, published in 1965, yet written years earlier around the time On the Road was in the process of publication, is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend...
(1965) - The Dharma BumsThe Dharma BumsThe Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The semi-fictional accounts in the novel are based upon events that occurred years after the events of On the Road...
(1958) - Lonesome TravelerLonesome TravelerLonesome Traveler is a collection of short stories and sketches by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, published in 1960. It is a compilation of Kerouac's journal entries about traveling the United States, Mexico, Morocco, the United Kingdom and France, and covers similar issues to his novels...
, short story collection (1960) - Big SurBig Sur (novel)Big Sur is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac. It recounts the events surrounding Kerouac's three brief sojourns to a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, owned by Kerouac's friend and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti...
(1962) - Satori in ParisSatori in ParisSatori in Paris is a 1966 novella by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. It is a short, semi-autobiographical tale of a man who travels to Paris, then Brittany, to research his genealogy. Kerouac relates his trip in a tumbledown fashion as a lonesome traveler. Little is said about the research...
, novella (1965) - Vanity of DuluozVanity of DuluozVanity of Duluoz is a 1968 semi-autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac . The book describes the adventures of Kerouac's alter ego, Jack Duluoz, covering the period of his life between 1935 and 1946...
(1968)
Poetry
- Mexico City BluesMexico City BluesMexico City Blues is a poem published by Jack Kerouac in 1959 composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas. In his own words, Kerouac wanted to be known as a jazz poet and with this book he sought to write in a way consistent with how a musician would play jazz...
(1955; published 1959) - The Scripture of the Golden EternityThe Scripture of the Golden EternityThe Scripture of the Golden Eternity is a book of 66 prose poems written by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, first published in 1960 by Corinth Books, New York...
(1956; published 1960) (meditations, koans, poems) - Scattered PoemsScattered PoemsScattered Poems is a collection of spontaneous poetry by Jack Kerouac. These poems were gathered from underground and ephemeral publications, as wells as from notebooks kept by the author. Some poems include: "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy," and American haikus....
(1945-1968; published 1971) - Book of SketchesBook of SketchesBook of Sketches is a collection of spotaneous prose poetry by the American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, published posthumously in 2006. The poems, written in 1952 and 1953 in a notebook carried in his breast pocket, describe Kerouac's travels through the U.S...
(1952–1957) - Old Angel MidnightOld Angel MidnightOld Angel Midnight is a long narrative poem by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. It was culled from five notebooks spanning from 1956 to 1959, while Kerouac was fully absorbed by his studies of Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy. Kerouac initially experimented with Old Angel Midnight in 1953...
(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 1991)
- Pomes All Sizes (compiled 1960; published 1992)
- Book of Blues (1954–1961)
- Book of HaikusBook of HaikusBook of Haikus is a collection of haiku poetry by Jack Kerouac. It was first published in 2003 and edited by Regina Weinreich. It consists of some 500 poems selected from a corpus of nearly 1,000 haiku jotted down by Kerouac on small notebooks he could carry around.Although most of the poetry in...
(published 2003)
Other Work and Non-fiction
- Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other WritingsAtop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other WritingsAtop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings is an anthology of American Beat writer Jack Kerouac's early work, published by Viking Press in 1991. It includes writings from Kerouac's high school years, poetry, short stories, essays and other previously unpublished works...
(1936-1943; published 1999) - Good Blonde & OthersGood Blonde & OthersGood Blonde & Others is a collection of works by Jack Kerouac. This collection includes short stories, essays, articles, literary criticism, and his essentials for spontaneous prose...
(1955; published 1993) - Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha (1955; published 2008)
- Some of the Dharma (1954-1955; published 1997)
- Beat GenerationBeat Generation (play)Beat Generation is a play written by Jack Kerouac upon returning home to Florida after his seminal work On the Road had been published in 1957...
, play (1957, published 2005)
Letters, Journals, and Interviews
- Dear Carolyn: Letters to Carolyn Cassady (1983) (1000 copies Edited By Arthur and Kit Knight) ISBN 0-934660-06-9
- Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1940-1956
- Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1957-1969
- Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac (1947–1954)
- Safe In Heaven Dead (Interview fragments)
- Conversations with Jack Kerouac (Interviews)
- Empty Phantoms (Interviews)
- Departed Angels: The Lost Paintings
- Door Wide OpenDoor Wide OpenDoor Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair In Letters, 1957-1958 is a collection of letters that were written in 1957-1958 between Joyce Johnson and Jack Kerouac....
(2000) (by Joyce Johnson. Includes letters from Jack Kerouac)
Discography
- Poetry For The Beat GenerationPoetry For The Beat GenerationPoetry for the Beat Generation is the debut album of American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac and was originally released in 1959.-History:Kerouac is accompanied by Steve Allen on the piano. All songs were written by Kerouac...
(1959) (LP) - Blues And HaikusBlues And HaikusBlues and Haikus is the American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac's second album and was released in 1959.-History:On the album, Kerouac's poetry readings are accompanied by jazz saxophonists Al Cohn and Zoot Sims...
(1959) (LP) - Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat GenerationReadings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat GenerationReadings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation is the American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac's third album and was released in 1960.-History:...
(1960) (LP) - The Jack Kerouac Collection (1990) [Box] (Audio CD Collection of 3 LPs)
- The Jack Kerouac Romnibus(1995) (a multimedia CD-ROM project coupled with a book) (Ralph Lombreglia and Kate Bernhardt)
- Reads on the Road (1999) (Audio CD)
- Doctor Sax & Great World SnakeDoctor SaxDoctor Sax is a novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1959. Kerouac wrote it in 1952 while living with William S. Burroughs in Mexico City.-Plot summary:...
(2003) (Play Adaptation with Audio CD)
Filmography
- Pull My DaisyPull My DaisyPull My Daisy is a short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation; Kerouac also provided improvised narration...
(1959 - Short Film) http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-8994248541021504750 - What Happened to Kerouac? (1986 - Documentary) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090312/