Primary Works

The Town and the City, 1950, novel; On the Road , 1957, novel; The Dharma Bums , 1958, novel, PS3521.E735 D5; The Subterraneans , 1958, novel, PS3521 .E735 S9; Mexico City Blues (242 Choruses) , 1959, poetry, PS3521.E735 M4; Maggie Cassidy: A Love Story , 1959, novel; Dr Sax , 1959, novel; Tristessa , 1960, novel, PS 3521 .E735 T73; Lonesome Traveller , 1960, novel; Book of Dreams , 1961, dream transcripts; Big Sur , 1962, novel, PS3521 .E735 B5; Visions of Gerard , 1963, novel, PS3521 .E735 V6; Desolation Angels, 1965, novel; Satori in Paris , 1966, novel, PS3521.E735 Z474x; The Vanity of Duluoz , 1968; Pic, 1971, novel, PS3521 .E735 P5; Scattered Poems , 1971, poetry, PS3521 .E735 A6; Visions of Cody, 1972, PS3521 .E735 V5; Book of Dreams, 1981, PS3521 .E735 B66x; Lonesome Traveler, 1989, PS 3521 .E735 L6; Book of Blues , 1995.

Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954. Brinkley, Douglas (ed. and introd.). NY: Viking, 2004. 

The Portable Jack Kerouac. Charters, Ann. ed. NY: Penguin, 2007.

Selected Bibliography 1980-Present

Amram, David. Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac. NY: Thunder's Mouth, 2002.

Bartlett, Lee. ed. The Beats: Essays in Criticism. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1981.

Charters, Ann ed. The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America. Detroit: Gale, 1983.

Dittman, Michael J. Jack Kerouac: A Biography. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004.

French, Warren G. Jack Kerouac. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986. PS3521 .E735 Z6328

Giamo, Ben. Kerouac, the Word and the Way: Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2000.

Holton, Robert. On the Road: Kerouac's Ragged American Journey. NY: Twayne, 1999.

Homes, A. M. Beat Generation. NY: Thunder's Mouth, 2005.

Hrebeniak, Michael. Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2006.

Hunt, Tim. Kerouac's Crooked Road: The Development of a Fiction. Berkeley: U of California P, 1996.

Jones, James T. A Map of Mexico City Blues: Jack Kerouac as Poet. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992.

- - -. Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1999.

Kashner, Sam. When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School. NY: HarperCollins, 2003.

Kerouac-Parker, Edie and others. You'll Be Okay: My Life with Jack Kerouac. San Francisco: City Lights, 2007.

Knight, Kit. Kerouac and the Beats: a primary sourcebook. NY: Paragon House, 1988. PS228 .B6 K48

Leland, John. Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think). NY: Viking, 2007.

Maher, Paul, Jr. Jack Kerouac's American Journey: The Real-Life Odyssey of On the Road. NY: Thunder's Mouth, 2007.

Martinez, Manuel L. Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomás Rivera. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2003.

Milewski, Robert J. et. al. Jack Kerouac: an annotated bibliography of secondary sources, 1944-1979. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow P, 1981. Z8463.4 .M54

Phillips, Rod. 'Forest Beatniks' and 'Urban Thoreaus': Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and Michael McClure. NY: Peter Lang, 2000.

Stephenson, Gregory. ed. The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990.

Sterritt, David. Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility. Carbondale: Southern Illinois U P, 2004.

Stiles, Bradley J. Emerson's Contemporaries and Kerouac's Crowd: A Problem of Self-Location. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003.

Suiter, John. Poets on the Peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades. NY: Counterpoint, 2002.

Turner, Steve. Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster. NY: Viking, 1996.

Watson, Steven. The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960. NY: Pantheon, 1995.

Weinreich, Regina. The spontaneous poetics of Jack Kerouac: a study of the fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois U P, 1987. PS3521 .E735 Z95

Swartz, Omar. The View from On the Road: The Rhetorical Vision of Jack Kerouac. Carbondale: Southern Illinois U P, 1999.  

Theado, Matt. Jack Kerouac. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2000.

MLA Style Citation of this Web Page

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