Jack Kerouac (1922–1969)

Author of On the Road

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About the Author

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. His first novel, The Town and the City, was published in 1950. He considered all of his "true story novels," including On the Road, to be chapters of "one vast book," his autobiographical Legend of Duluoz. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, show more in 1969 at the age of forty-seven. (Publisher Provided) show less

Includes the names: J. Kerouac, Jack Krouk, Jack Keroac, Jack Krouac, DZEK KERUAK, Jack Kerouc, Jach Kerouac, Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac, Jacj Kerouac, Jack Kerouac, John Kerouac, Jack Kerouack, Jack Keroucac, Džeks Keruaks, [Jack Kerouac], JACK). (KEROUAC, Jack ZZZKerouac, by Jack Kerouac, Джек Керуак, Jac (1922-1969) KEROUAC, Jack;Kerouc Kerouac, Jack, Jack Kerouac; Kerouac Jack, Jack; Jack Kerouac Kerouac, Džek Keruak (Jack Kerouac), Jack 'Beat/Hippie Influencer' Kerouac

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Works by Jack Kerouac

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On the Road (1957) 28,715 copies, 395 reviews

The Dharma Bums (1958) 7,567 copies, 79 reviews

Big Sur (1963) 2,874 copies, 34 reviews

On the Road : The Original Scroll (2007) 2,335 copies, 23 reviews

The Subterraneans (1958) 2,122 copies, 22 reviews

Desolation Angels (1965) 2,114 copies, 15 reviews

Lonesome Traveler (1960) 1,227 copies, 6 reviews

Visions of Cody (1972) 1,124 copies, 8 reviews

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945) 1,052 copies, 28 reviews

Dr. Sax (1959) 880 copies, 11 reviews

The Town and the City (1950) 857 copies, 9 reviews

Maggie Cassidy (1959) 855 copies, 14 reviews

Tristessa (1960) 824 copies, 13 reviews

Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses (1959) — Author — 744 copies, 2 reviews

Visions of Gerard (1963) 599 copies, 9 reviews

Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (1968) 537 copies, 5 reviews

Book of Dreams (1961) — Author — 476 copies, 2 reviews

Scattered Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (1989) 473 copies, 6 reviews

The Portable Jack Kerouac (1995) 442 copies, 2 reviews

Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960 (2007) 437 copies, 1 review

Pomes All Sizes (2001) 437 copies, 2 reviews

Some of the Dharma (1954) 379 copies, 1 review

Satori in Paris / Pic (1986) 376 copies, 3 reviews

Satori in Paris (1966) 371 copies, 6 reviews

Book of Blues (1995) 336 copies, 2 reviews

Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (1999) 334 copies, 2 reviews

Book of Haikus (2003) 309 copies, 4 reviews

Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (2004) 300 copies, 3 reviews

Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 (2001) 278 copies, 2 reviews

San Francisco Blues (1995) 277 copies, 4 reviews

Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha (2008) 275 copies, 11 reviews

Orpheus Emerged (2001) 270 copies, 3 reviews

Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956 (1995) 267 copies, 1 review

The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (1970) 262 copies, 3 reviews

The Subterraneans / Pic (1973) 253 copies, 3 reviews

The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel (2011) 253 copies, 11 reviews

Book of Sketches (Poets, Penguin) (2006) 227 copies, 4 reviews

Good Blonde & Others (1993) 201 copies, 1 review

Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 2: 1957-1969 (1999) 194 copies, 2 reviews

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (2010) 194 copies, 1 review

On the Road / The Dharma Bums / The Subterraneans (1993) 186 copies

Pic (1971) 168 copies, 1 review

Heaven and Other Poems (1977) — Author — 160 copies, 3 reviews

Old Angel Midnight (1973) 144 copies, 2 reviews

Beat Generation (1957) 142 copies, 1 review

Collected poems (2012) 122 copies

The Unknown Kerouac (LOA #283): Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings (Library of America Jack Kerouac Edition) (2016) 94 copies, 1 review

The Haunted Life: and Other Writings (2014) 94 copies, 2 reviews

Jack Kerouac: Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, Big Sur: (Library of America #262) (2015) 83 copies

Piers of the Homeless Night (PENGUIN MODERN) (2018) 79 copies, 1 review

Trip Trap (2001) — Contributor — 72 copies

Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake (2003) 55 copies

Departed Angels: The Lost Paintings (2004) 47 copies

Pull My Daisy (2008) 38 copies, 2 reviews

On the Road (Penguin Readers: Level 5) (2000) 36 copies

You're a Genius All the Time: Belief and Technique for Modern Prose (2009) 35 copies

Le Vagabond américain en voie de disparition, précédé de : Grand voyage en Europe (2002) 30 copies

The Jack Kerouac Collection (1990) 28 copies

'Beat' Poets (1961) — Contributor — 24 copies

Safe in Heaven Dead (Hanuman Book No. 42) (1990) 23 copies

Romanzi (2001) 22 copies

Desolation Peak: Collected Writings (2022) 17 copies, 1 review

Neal e i tre Stooges (1993) 13 copies

La vie est d'hommage (2016) 13 copies

The Poetry of Jack Kerouac: Scattered Poems, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, and Old Angel Midnight (2017) 12 copies

Sur les origines d'une génération/Le dernier mot (2012) 11 copies

On the Road and Other Stories (2003) 11 copies

Dear Carolyn: Letters to Carolyn Cassady (1983) 10 copies

Poemas Dipersos (Spanish Edition) (1980) 9 copies

Poetry for the Beat Generation (2008) 9 copies

Ruhm tötet alles: Die Briefe (2012) 7 copies

Self-Portrait (2024) 7 copies, 1 review

Poèmes (1976) 6 copies

Truth and Beautiful Meaningful Lies: A Collection of Jack Kerouac Quotes (2023) 6 copies

L'ultima parola. In viaggio. Nel jazz (2003) 6 copies

Double défi (2010) 6 copies

Scrivere bop: lezioni di scrittura creativa 6 copies

Reads on the Road (1999) 5 copies

Desolation blues y otros poemas (2000) 5 copies

Blues and Haikus (2012) 5 copies

Readings by Jack Kerouac on the beat generation 5 copies

Rimbaud (1970) 5 copies

The Electrocution of Block 38383939383 (2013) 5 copies

La grande traversée de l'Ouest en bus et autres textes beat (2022) 5 copies

Sioc Maidine / Morning Frost: Haiku (2013) 4 copies

Where Céline Raged: A Correspondence Between Jack Kerouac & Ed White (2014) 4 copies

The Great Western Bus Ride 3 copies

Two early stories (1973) 3 copies

Listy (2012) 3 copies

On the Road. Album 100 photos Sur la route pour la liberté de la presse (2016) 3 copies

Pull My Daisy [1959 film] (1959) — Narrator — 3 copies

On the Road: Text and Criticism (1979) 3 copies

Cidade Pequena, Cidade Grande - Formato Convencional (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2008) 3 copies

Joual (1984) 3 copies

Manhattan Sketches (1987) 3 copies

Underwood Memories (2006) 3 copies

Visions of Gerard, and, Tristessa 3 copies

Excerpts from Visions of Cody (1959) 3 copies

The Mexican Girl 2 copies

Awakening from a Dream of Robert Fournier 2 copies

Correspondance: (1944-1969) (2014) — Author — 2 copies

Podzemníci & Tristessa (2006) 2 copies

Delphi Complete Works of Jack Kerouac (Illustrated) 2 copies

Forever on the road: Sulla strada-Big Sur-I vagabondi del Dharma. Ediz. illustrata (2019) 2 copies

The Northport Haikus 2 copies

Un Homme Grand: Jack Kerouac at the Crossroads of Many Cultures (1990) 2 copies

Two Christmas Stories 2 copies

Two Stories from Jack Kerouac 2 copies

Les Anges vagabonds - Sur la route - Le Vagabond solitaire (1999) 2 copies

Kerouac 2 copies

Verzen, schetsen, haiku's & blues 2 copies

L'Ultimo Hotel e Altre Poesie (1999) 2 copies

Hazajáró lélek : és egyéb írások (2014) 2 copies

From the Journals 1949-54 (from road novels 1957-1960 w/ dharma bums; subterraneans; tristessa; lonesome traveler; on… 2 copies

Visions of Cody: Selections from the Novel (Classic, 20th-Century, Audio) (1996) 2 copies

I capolavori (2004) 2 copies

La Ciudad y el campo 1 copy

Baseball 1 copy

Il libro degli schizzi (2018) 1 copy

Poeti del mondo 1 copy

Scheda libro Sulla strada di Jack Kerouac (analisi letteraria di riferimento e riassunto completo) (Italian Edition) (2020) 1 copy

Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco 1950-1965. (1974) 1 copy

On the Road with On the Road (2025) 1 copy

PIC. Convencional (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2000) 1 copy

Sareste scappati di casa se aveste saputo che Jack Kerouac abitava ancora con la sua mamma? 1 copy

Jack Kerouac: Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, Big Sur: (Library of America #262) by Kerouac, Jack (2015) Hardcover 1 copy

Diários De Jack Kerouac. 1947-1954 - Coleção L&PM Pocket (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2013) 1 copy

Pic Storia di un vagabondo “sulla strada” edizione integrale 1 copy

Satori in Parijs (2023) 1 copy

The Dharma Bums [sound recording] 1 copy

La citta' e la metropoli. 1 copy

Madrugada (Issue Number One) 1 copy

Last Words & Other Writings: The Collected Essays 1 copy

NE UDHE 1 copy

Poeti del mondo 1 copy

I Meridiani - Scritti vari 1 copy

I Meridiani - Angeli della desolazione 1 copy

I Meridiani - Big Sur 1 copy

I Meridiani - I vagabondi del Dharma 1 copy

I Meridiani - I sotterranei 1 copy

I Meridiani - Sulla strada 1 copy

Pic - Coleção L&PM 1239 (Esgotado) (2017) 1 copy

Biografía de una generación 1 copy

Usamljeni putnik 1 copy

Nouvelles Américaines 1 copy

Victor-Lévy Beaulieu 1 copy

Letters from Jack. Jack Kerouac in Love, A Beat Romance 1 copy

Take Care of My Ghost, Ghost 1 copy

Engel der Trübsal 1 copy

Orpheus Emerged2 1 copy

Cenas de Nova York & outras histórias 1 copy

Orizaba 210 Blues. Cerrada de Medellín Blues 1 copy

The Complete Works of Jack Kerouac 1 copy

Essentials of Spontaneous Prose 1 copy

Beatific: The Origins of the Beat Generation 1 copy

Not long ago joy abounded at Christmas 1 copy

The Vision of the Hooded White Angels 1 copy

Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen: Poetry for the Beat Generation (Colored Vinyl) Vinyl LP (2017) 1 copy

Alone on a mountaintop, Sam na vrcholu hory 1 copy

Poesie 1 copy

In the Kerouac Archive (The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 282, No. 5, November 1998) 1 copy

The Kerouac Papers: A Sampling of Jack Kerouac's Huge, Unpublished Output. (The Atlantic Monthly November 1988) 1 copy

Selected Letters: Really Uncorrected Proofs 1 copy

A Book of Cats & Haikus 1 copy

A Pun for Al Gelpi 1 copy

Paris Review Interview, Raw Transcript: Lowell, Mass., Spring 1967 1 copy

The Origins of the Beat Generation 1 copy

4 Haikus 1 copy

Mexico City blues II (1993) 1 copy

San Francisco Blues New York: (1995) 1 copy

Home At Christmas 1 copy

Une Veille De Noel 1 copy

The Ghost of the Susquehanna 1 copy

letters of jack kerouac 1 copy

Jack Kerouac (1970) 1 copy

México inocente y otros relatos de viaje 1 copy

Beat e Mondo Beat: Lato A/1: Sareste scappati di casa se ... 1 copy

Jack Kerouac Story, The - Whatever Happened To Kerouac? [DVD] [2005] 1 copy

Pome on Doctor Sax & Other Pomes 1 copy

Kniha haiku (2019) 1 copy

Study guide On the road by Jack Kerouac (in-depth literary analysis and complete summary) (2020) 1 copy

Jack Kerouac e Allen Ginsberg: As Cartas (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2012) 1 copy

Journaux de bord: (1947-1954) (2015) 1 copy

Pearson English Reader Level 3: The Young King and Other Stories Book and Multi-ROM with MP3 Pack (2015) 1 copy

Mexico city blues (1979) 1 copy

Jack Kerouac, 1922-1969 1 copy

New Editions 2: An Anthology of Literary Discoveries 1 copy

Céline and Other Tales 1 copy

Jack Kerouac's Little Book of Selected Quotes (2021) 1 copy, 1 review

Oral History Interview, Session Two, April 15, 1964, Transcript 1 copy

Write a madder letter if you can : the letters of Jack Kerouac to Ed White, 1947-1969 1 copy

LIBRO DE ESBOZOS (1600) 1 copy, 1 review

Notebook & Journal Entries 1 copy

Oceanul e fratele meu: antologie de texte literare şi corespondenţă Jack Kerouac - Sebastian Sampas (2012) 1 copy

Cartea trezirii: viaţa lui Buddha (2014) 1 copy

Refrain 1 copy

Usamljeni putnik (2021) 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Portable Beat Reader (Viking Portable Library) (1992) — Contributor — 1,504 copies, 10 reviews

The Americans (1958) — Introduction — 987 copies, 17 reviews

The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (1999) — Contributor — 604 copies, 3 reviews

City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (1995) — Contributor — 377 copies, 6 reviews

The New American Poetry 1945-1960 (1960) — Contributor — 324 copies, 2 reviews

Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Contributor — 308 copies, 3 reviews

The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture (1999) — Contributor — 170 copies, 1 review

New York Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series) (2011) — Contributor, some editions — 168 copies, 5 reviews

Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributor — 154 copies, 2 reviews

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contributor — 153 copies, 1 review

Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present (2000) — Contributor — 148 copies, 1 review

The Norton Book of Travel (1987) — Contributor — 112 copies, 1 review

Soul: An Archaeology--Readings from Socrates to Ray Charles (1994) — Contributor — 102 copies

The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground (2013) — Contributor — 84 copies, 2 reviews

The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Contributor — 75 copies, 1 review

200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Contributor — 74 copies, 1 review

The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contributor — 70 copies, 1 review

The Beats (1960) — Author, some editions — 65 copies, 2 reviews

The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road: Tales of Life on the Move (Mammoth Books) (2003) — Contributor — 52 copies

New American Story (1971) — Contributor — 50 copies

Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014) — Contributor — 43 copies

On the Road [2012 film] (2018) — Original book — 33 copies

The Bedside Playboy (1963) — Contributor — 24 copies

The Beat Scene: Photographs by Burt Glinn (2018) — Author — 19 copies

Big Table 1 (1959) — Contributor — 18 copies

Kerouac At Bat: Fantasy Sports and the King of the Beats. (2009) — Contributor — 18 copies, 1 review

Constructing Nature: Readings from the American Experience (1996) — Contributor — 18 copies

The Best American Short Stories 1956 (1956) — Contributor — 18 copies

My Brother Larry : The Stooge in the Middle (1984) — Appendix — 17 copies, 1 review

The Playboy Book of Short Stories (1995) — Contributor — 11 copies

Gringos in Mexico: An Anthology (1988) — Contributor — 11 copies

A New Directions reader — Contributor — 11 copies

The Paris Review 43 1968 Summer (1968) — Contributor — 9 copies

West Coast Fiction: Modern Writing from California, Oregon, and Washington (1979) — Contributor — 8 copies, 1 review

Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel (2002) — Contributor — 6 copies

Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place [2011 film] (2011) — Self — 5 copies

TriQuarterly 19, Fall 1970 (1970) — Contributor — 4 copies

Playboy Magazine ~ January 1989 (35th Anniversary Issue) (1989) — Contributor — 2 copies

Kerouac Quarterly, V. 2, No. 1 — Contributor — 1 copy

Beatitude 16 — Contributor — 1 copy

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