The Bruce Lee Library is a book of volumes covering Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee was a Chinese American, Hong Kong actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement...

's autobiography and martial art

Martial arts

Martial arts are extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development....

 abilities of the Jeet Kune Do

Jeet Kune Do

Jeet Kune Do is a hybrid martial arts system and life philosophy founded by martial artist Bruce Lee with direct, non classical and straightforward movements. Due to the way his style works they believe in minimal movement with maximum effect and extreme speed. The system works on the use of...

movement. The volumes were compiled and edited by John Little

John Little (writer)

John Little is a writer and bodybuilding expert. A native of Canada, Little is an expert in the fields of martial arts, bodybuilding and physical conditioning. -Biography:...

. Little was selected by the Bruce Lee estate as the only person authorized to review the entirety of Lee's private notes and to write and edit books on Lee's martial art techniques of Jeet Kune Do

Jeet Kune Do

Jeet Kune Do is a hybrid martial arts system and life philosophy founded by martial artist Bruce Lee with direct, non classical and straightforward movements. Due to the way his style works they believe in minimal movement with maximum effect and extreme speed. The system works on the use of...

.

The majority of the notes used for these volumes are from Bruce Lee's own materials and writings made available by Bruce Lee's widow Linda Lee Cadwell

Linda Lee Cadwell

Linda Lee Cadwell is an American teacher and the widow of martial arts master and actor Bruce Lee.-Life and career:...

. Lee had compiled many volumes worth of materials during his convalescence

Convalescence

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 after he suffered a back

Human back

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 injury during one of his martial arts training sessions in 1970. A few books were published in the early 1970s, including The Tao of Jeet Kune Do

The Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Tao of Jeet Kune Do is a book expressing Bruce Lee's martial arts philosophy and viewpoints, published posthumously . The project for this book began in 1970 when Bruce Lee suffered a back injury during one of his practice sessions. During this time he could not train in martial arts...

. During the late 1990s this material was revisited and compiled into five core texts and various other Bruce Lee biographies. These volumes are a combination of Lee's original notes along interviews and conversations with many of Lee's students, friends, family members, and fellow actors. The volumes are published by the "Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc."

Volumes

• Vol. 1 - Words of the Dragon - Interviews, 1958 - 1973

• Vol. 2 - The Tao of Gung Fu - A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Arts

• Vol. 3 - Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way

• Vol. 4 - The Art of Expressing the Human Body

• Vol. 5 - Letters of the Dragon - Correspondence, 1958 - 1973

Biography

• Bruce Lee Artist of Life
• Bruce Lee Words From A Master
• Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts
• Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey

See also

• Jeet Kune Do
  Jeet Kune Do
  Jeet Kune Do is a hybrid martial arts system and life philosophy founded by martial artist Bruce Lee with direct, non classical and straightforward movements. Due to the way his style works they believe in minimal movement with maximum effect and extreme speed. The system works on the use of...
  
  
• The Tao of Jeet Kune Do
  The Tao of Jeet Kune Do
  Tao of Jeet Kune Do is a book expressing Bruce Lee's martial arts philosophy and viewpoints, published posthumously . The project for this book began in 1970 when Bruce Lee suffered a back injury during one of his practice sessions. During this time he could not train in martial arts...
  
  
• Bruce Lee's Fighting Method