| Town and City | Vanity of Duluoz | On the Road | The Subterraneans | Tristessa | The Dharma Bums | Desolation Angels | Big Sur | Mexico City Blues | Book of Dreams | |
| William Burroughs | Will Dennison | Will Hubbard | Old Bull Lee | Frank Carmody | Bull Hubbard | Bull Hubbard | ||||
| Joan Volmer Adams (Burroughs) | Mary Dennison | June | Jane Lee | Jane | ||||||
| Lucien Carr | Kenneth Wood | Claude de Maubris | Damion | Sam Vedder | Julian | Julien Love | ||||
| Carolyn Cassady (Robinson) | Camille | Evelyn | Evelyn | Evelyn | ||||||
| LuAnne Cassady (Henderson) | MaryLou | Annie | ||||||||
| Neal Cassady | Dean Moriarty | Leroy | Cody Pomeray | Cody Pomeray | Cody Pomeray | Cody Pomeray | ||||
| Hal Chase | Chad King | |||||||||
| Gregory Corso | Yuri Gligoric | Raphael Urso | Raphael Urso | |||||||
| Henry Cru | Deni Bleu | Remi Boncoeur | Deni Bleu | |||||||
| Robert Duncan | Geoffrey Donald | |||||||||
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Larry O'Hara | Lorenzo Monsanto | Danny Richman | |||||||
| Bea Franco | Terry | |||||||||
| William Gaddis | Harold Sand | |||||||||
| William Garver | Old Bill Gaines | Old Bill Gaines | Old Bill Gaines | |||||||
| Allen Ginsberg | Leon Levinsky | Irwin Garden | Carlo Marx | Adam Moorad | Alvah Goldbook | Irwin Garden | Irwin Garden | Irwin Garden | ||
| Diane Hansen (Cassady) | Inez | |||||||||
| Joan Haverty (Kerouac) | Laura | |||||||||
| Ed Hinckle | Ed Dunkel | Ed Buckle | ||||||||
| Helen Hinckle | Galatea Dunkel | |||||||||
| John Clellon Holmes | Tom Saybrook | Balliol MacJones | James Watson | |||||||
| Herbert Huncke | Junky | Elmo Hassel | Huck | |||||||
| Natalie Jackson | Rosie Buchanan | Rosemarie | ||||||||
| Randall Jarrell | Varnum Random | |||||||||
| Frank Jeffries | Stan Shephard | |||||||||
| David Kammerer | Waldo Meister | Franz Mueller | ||||||||
| Lenore Kandel | Romona Swartz | |||||||||
| Jack Kerouac | Peter Martin et al | Jack Duluoz (the louse) | Sal Paradise | Leo Percepied (Pierced Foot) | Ray Smith | Jack Duluoz | Jack Duluoz | Jack | ||
| Leo Kerouac | George Martin | Emil (Pop) Duluoz |
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| Gabrielle Kerouac | Marge Martin | Ange | Sal's Aunt | |||||||
| Caroline Kerouac | Ruth & Elizabeth Martin | Nin | ||||||||
| Gerard Kerouac | Julian Martin | |||||||||
| Philip Lamantia | Francis DaPavia | Francis DaPavia | David D'Angeli | |||||||
| Robert LaVigne | Robert Browning | |||||||||
| Alene Lee | Mardou Fox | Irene May | ||||||||
| Michael McClure | Ike O'Shay | Patrick McLear | Pat McLear | |||||||
| Norman Mailer | Harvey Marker | |||||||||
| Jackie Gibson Mercer | Willamine (Billie) Dabney | |||||||||
| John Montgomery | Henry Morley | Alex Fairbrother | ||||||||
| Peter Orlovsky | George | Simon Darlovsky | Simon Darlovsky | |||||||
| Kenneth Rexroth | Rheinhold Cacoethes | |||||||||
| Anton Rosenberg | Julian Alexander | |||||||||
| Sebastian (Sammy) Sampas | Alex Panos | Sabby Savakis | ||||||||
| Stella Sampas (Keouac) | Stavroula Savakis | |||||||||
| Gary Snyder | Japhy Ryder | Jarry Wagner | ||||||||
| Gore Vidal | Arial Lavalina | |||||||||
| Esperanza Villanueva | Tristessa | |||||||||
| Alan Watts | Alex Aums | Arthur Whane | ||||||||
| Lew Welch | David Wain | |||||||||
| Philip Whalen | Warren Coughlin | Ben Fagin | ||||||||
| Ed White | Tim Gray | Guy Green | ||||||||
| Phil White | Jack the Hoodlum | |||||||||
| Victor Wong | Arthur Ma | |||||||||
| Celine Young | Cecily Wain |
