Jack Kerouac bibliography
Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) 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.[1] Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel.
Fiction
- The Town and the City (1950; written 1946–1949)
- On the Road (1957; written 1947–1951)
- The Subterraneans, (1958; written 1953)
- The Dharma Bums (1958)
- Doctor Sax (1959; written 1952)
- Maggie Cassidy (1959; written 1953)
- Tristessa, (1960; written 1955–1956)
- Lonesome Traveler, short story collection (1960)
- Book of Dreams (1960; written 1952–1960)
- Big Sur (1962)
- Visions of Gerard (1963; written 1956)
- Desolation Angels (1965)
- Satori in Paris (1965)
- Vanity of Duluoz (1968)
- Visions of Cody (1972; written 1951–1952)
Posthumous fiction
- Pic (1971; written 1951 & 1969)
- The Sea is My Brother (1942; first published in Slovak translation 2010 Bratislava, Slovakia, European Union: Artfórum)
- Orpheus Emerged, novella (1944–1945; published 2002)
- The Haunted Life and Other Writings, Novel (1944; published 2014)
- And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, with William S. Burroughs (1945; published 2008)
- La vie est d'hommage, edition of all previously unpublished French writings, includes some non-fiction (1950-1965; published 2016)
- "The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings" (1951-1952; published 2016)
Poetry
- 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 1991)
- 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)
Other work and non-fiction
- 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)[2]
Letters, journals, 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 (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)
Discography
- Poetry For The Beat Generation (1959) (LP)
- Blues And Haikus (1959) (LP)
- Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation (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)
- Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road (1999) (Audio CD)
- Doctor Sax and Great World Snake (2003) (Play Adaptation with Audio CD)
Filmography
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Pull My Daisy | Short film. |
References
- ^ Swartz, Omar (1999). The view from On the road: the rhetorical vision of Jack Kerouac. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-8093-2384-5. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
- ^ Freeman, John. "Fiction Review: Road Show". Newcity Chicago. Newcity. Archived from the original on March 7, 2006. Retrieved February 15, 2015.