| THE DHARMA BUMS (Viking, 1958) (Written 1957) | ||
| Character name: | Real name: | |
| Altman | John Hoffmann | |
| Rosie Buchanan | Natalie Jackson | |
| Burnie Byers | Blackie Burns | |
| Rheinhold Cacoethes | Kenneth Rexroth | |
| Cody | Neal Cassady | |
| Warren Coughlin | Philip Whalen | |
| Henri Cru | Henri Cru | |
| Francis DaPavia | Philip Lamantia | |
| Marshall Dashiell | Randall Jarrell | |
| Bud Diefendorf | Claude Dalenberg | |
| O.O. Dowler | W.H. Auden | |
| Manuel Drubbing | Lionel Trilling | |
| Gary (real name used in error) | Gary Snyder | |
| George | Peter Orlovsky | |
| Alvah Goldbook | Allen Ginsberg | |
| Happy | Andy Wilcox | |
| Jaimy | Raimy | |
| Ariadne Jones | Marianne Moore | |
| Whitey Jones | John Lingard White | |
| Jack Joseph | ? | |
| Al Lark | James Hatch | |
| Little Lou | Paul Blake, Jr | |
| Albert Law Livingston | Robert Penn Warren | |
| Leontine McGee | Louise Bogan | |
| Daisy Mae | Betty Bock | |
| Joe Mahoney | Bob Donlin | |
| Christine Monahan | Valery McCorkle | |
| Sean Monahan | Locke McCorkle | |
| Henry Morley | John Montgomery | |
| Doctor Musial | William Carlos Williams | |
| Ike O'Shay | Michael McClure | |
| Charlie Parker | Charlie Parker | |
| Patsy | Sally Gavin | |
| Little Prajna | Sita McCorkle | |
| Princess | Jinny Baker Lehrman | |
| Psyche | Marilyn Arnold ("Neuri") | |
| Japhy Ryder | Gary Snyder | |
| Rhoda Ryder | Thea Snyder | |
| Dee Sampson | Jay Laughlin | |
| Tough Shit Short | T.S. Eliot | |
| Ray Smith | Jack Kerouac | |
| Rol Sturlason | Will Petersen | |
| Omar Tott | Allen Tate | |
| Wally | Marty Gohlke | |
| Arthur Whane | Alan Watts | |
| Polly Whitmore | Nancy C[?] | |
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MEDITATION IN THE WOODS (in Chicago Review, Summer 1958) This extract from The Dharma Bums, published several months before the book, and hence probably from an earlier version, indicates considerable editing and re-ordering of the final text. The following name differences are seen: | ||
| Character name: | Real name: | |
| Allen | Allen Ginsberg | |
| Kerouac | Jack Kerouac | |
| Natalie | Natalie Jackson | |
| Little Paul | Paul Blake, Jr | |
| Gary Snyder | Gary Snyder | |
| Philip Whalen | Philip Whalen | |
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