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^[2][]

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)

The Sea Is My Brother (written 1942; first published in Slovak translation 2010 Bratislava, Slovakia, European Union: Artfórum)
, 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)
, edition of all previously unpublished French writings, includes some non-fiction (written 1950-1965; published 2016)
"" (1946-1968; published 2016)
Visions of Cody (written 1951–1952; excerpts published December 1959; novel published 1972)
Pic (written 1951 and 1969, published 1971)

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)
(1959; published 1973) (with Albert Saijo and Lew Welch)
(1957–1962; published 1977)
(1954; published 1983)
(compiled 1960; published 1992)
(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)

Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (1936–1943; published 1999)
Good Blonde & Others (1955; published 1993)
(1955; published 2008)
(1953–1956; published 1997)
Beat Generation, play (1957, published 2005)^[3]

(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.
(1947–1954)
(1990) (Interview fragments published by Hanuman Books)
(Interviews)
(Interviews)
Door Wide Open (2000) (by Joyce Johnson. Includes letters from Jack Kerouac)
(2010)

Poetry for the Beat Generation (1959) (LP)
Blues and Haikus (1959) (LP)
Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation (1960) (LP)
(1990) [Box] (Audio CD Collection of 3 LPs)
(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)

Year	Title	Notes
1959	Pull My Daisy	Short film.

^ 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.
^ Most information from Charters, Ann (1975). Jack Kerouac: A Bibliography. New York, NY: The Phoenix Bookshop. ISBN 0916228061. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
^ Freeman, John. "Fiction Review: Road Show". Newcity Chicago. Newcity. Archived from the original on March 7, 2006. Retrieved February 15, 2015.