The Duluoz Legend is the name given by the American

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 novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

ist and poet

Poetry

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 Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

Jean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic...

 to the novels that constituted the major body of his work. Describing The Duluoz Legend, Kerouac wrote that that:

List of works

The novels included in The Duluoz Legend include the following, in the order of time covered:

Book	Written	Time covered
Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings Atop 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 It includes writings from Kerouac's high school years, poetry, short stories, essays and other previously unpublished works...	1936–1943	Various
Visions of Gerard Visions of Gerard Visions 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	1922–1926
Doctor Sax Doctor Sax Doctor 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	1930–1936
The Town and the City The Town and the City The 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	1935–1946
Maggie Cassidy Maggie Cassidy Maggie 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	1938–1939
Vanity of Duluoz Vanity of Duluoz Vanity 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	1935–1946
On The Road On the Road On 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...	1948–1956	1946–1950
Visions of Cody Visions of Cody Visions 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	1946–1952
The Subterraneans The Subterraneans The 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...	1953	1953
Tristessa Tristessa Tristessa is a novella by Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac set in Mexico City. It is based on his relationship with a Mexican prostitute...	1955–1956	1955–1956
The Dharma Bums The Dharma Bums The 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...	1957	1955–1956
Desolation Angels (novel) Desolation 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...	1956–1957
Big Sur (novel) Big 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...	1961	1960
Satori in Paris Satori in Paris Satori 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...	1965	1965

Note: There are two books that are sometimes included in the Legend of Duluoz, and sometimes not.

• Lonesome Traveler
  Lonesome Traveler
  Lonesome 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...
  
  – This is not a novel, but is a collection of essays and sketches made by Kerouac.
• Book of Dreams
  Book 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...
  
  – This is also not a novel, but a dream-journal from dreams recorded between 1952 and 1960