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Jack Kerouac

Male : Novelist. Died of an abdominal haemorrhage, probably brought on by his excessive drinking.
Nationality : American Place of Birth : Lowell, Massachusetts

Date of Birth : 1922 Date of Death : 1969 Age : 47

Pseudonyms : Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac. John Kerouac

Education : Columbia University
1950-1960
The Town and the City
(1950 Harcourt Brace) - as John Kerouac
Offered in 1999 for £395
(1951 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
On the Road
(1957 Viking) (1958 Deutsch)
The Subterraneans
(1958 Grove Press) (1960 Deutsch)
[Filmed in 1960]
The Dharma Bums
(1958 Viking) (1959 Deutsch - 4000 copies printed)
Doctor Sax : Faust Part Three
(1959 Grove Press) (1961 Evergreen) (1977 Deutsch £3.50)
4 Haikus
(Grecourt Review) - one leaf
Maggie Cassidy
(1959 Avon) (1960 Panther) - pb (1974 Deutsch) - 1st HB Edition
Mexico City Blues
(1959 Grove Press)
Excerpts from Visions of Cody
(1959 New Directions)
Hymn - God Pray for Me
(1959 PP Jubilee Magazine)
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
(1960Totem Press/Corinth Books)
Tristessa
(1960 Avon) - pb (1963 World Distrib)
Lonesome Traveller
(1960 Mcgraw Hill) (1962 Deutsch)
Rimbaud
(1960 City Light Books) - folded broadside
Book of Dreams
(1960 City Light Books)

1961-1970
Pull My Daisy
(1961 Grove Press) (1961 Evergreen pb)
Big Sur
(1962 Farrar Straus) (1963 Deutsch)
Poem
(1962 Jubilee Magazine)
Visions of Gerard
(1963 Farrar Straus) Visions of Gerard and Tristessa (1964 Deutsch)
Desolation Angels
(1965 Coward McCann) (1966 Deutsch)
Satori in Paris
(1966 Grove Press) (1967 Deutsch)
A Pun for Al Gelpi
(Privately printed)
Hugo Weber
(1967 Portents)
Someday You'll be Lying to Us
(1968 Privately printed) - Ltd Ed 100 broadside poem
Vanity of Dulouz : An Adventurous Education 1935-46
(1968 Coward McCann) (1969 Deutsch)
A Last Haiku
(1969 Privately printed)

1971-1980
Pic
(1971 Grove Press)
Scattered Poems
(1971 City Lights)
Pic and The Subterraneans : Two Novels
(1973 Deutsch)Excerpts from Visions of Cody (1973 Deutsch)
Trip Trap
(1973 Grey Fox Press)
Old Angel Midnight
(1976 Unicorn Press, UK)
Take Care of My Ghost
(1977 Ghost Press) - with Allen Ginsberg
Heaven and Other Poems
(1977 Grey Fox Press)

After 1981
Baby Driver : A Story About Myself
(1981 St Martin's) (1981 Deutsch) - edited by Jan Kerouac
San Francisco Blues
(1983 Beat Books)
Two stories
(1984 Pacific Red Car)
The Great Western Bus Ride
(1984 Pacific Red Car)
Celine and Other Tales
(1985 Pacific Red Car)
Last Words & Other Writings
(1985 Zeta Press)
Hymn : God Pray for Me
(1985 Caliban) - Ltd Ed 150
The Vision of the Hooded White Angels
(1985 Pacific Red Car)
Old Angel Midnight
(1985 Midnight Press)
Home at Christmas
(undated Pacific Red Car)
American Haikus
(1986 Caliban Press)
The Mexican Girl
(nd. Pacific Red Car)
Trainsong
(1988 NY) - edited by Jan Kerouac

READING
Ann Charters : A Bibliography of Works by Jack Kerouac
(Jean Louis de Kerouac) 1939-1967
(1967 Phoenix Bookshop) (1974 Deutsch) (1975 Rev Ed Phoenix Bookshop)
Ann Charters : Kerouac - A Biography
(1973 Straight Arrow, SF)
Barry Gifford & Lawrence Lee : Jack's Book - An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
(1978 St Martin's Press NY)
Regina Weinreich : The Spontaneous Poetics of Jack Kerouac
(1987 S Illinois UP)
Tom Clark : Jack Kerouac - A Biography
(1997 Plexus £12.99)

Related Writers

Allen Ginsberg


See also

Cult Novels