Edie parker kerouac biography examples
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You'll Be Okay: My Life with Jack Kerouac
"Sad and funny, full of pathos and the lost dreams of youth, 'You'll Be Okay' will find it's way to the short list of exceptional books by women of the Beat Generation that includes Carolyn Cassady's 'Off the Road' and Joyce Johnson's 'Minor Characters.' This year, on the 50th anniversary of the publication of 'On the Road,' readers may well want to turn to Edie's long-overdue memoir for one woman's soulful view of Kerouac, Carr, Ginsberg and Burroughs, whom she knew intimately and describes in her own inimitable style." Jonah Raskin, The San Francisco Chronicle
"You have a unique viewpoint from which to write about Jack as no one else has or could write. I feel very deeply that this book must be written. And no one else, I repeat, can write it." William S. Burroughs
Edie Parker was eighteen years old when she met Jack Kerouac at Columbia University in 1940. A young socialite from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she had come to New York to study art and quickly found herself swept up in the excitement and new freedoms that the big city offered a sheltered young woman of that time.
Jack Kerouac was also eighteen, attending Columbia on a football scholarship, impressing his friends with his intelligence and knowledge of literat
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Kerouac and An American Marriage
an excerpt from a work-in-progress)
In January 1945, Jack Kerouac set out to write his Great American Novel. His newly-drafted notes embraced the activities of the last four years and scaffolded the events up to, during and after his hastily-arranged marriage to Edie Parker on August 22, 1944. He titled this new tome An American Marriage.
Kerouac’s relationship with Edie Parker up to that point was precarious at best. It’s common knowledge among even the least informed of Kerouac’s reading audience that he married during his brief incarceration in the Bronx Jail as an accessory-after-the-fact to Lucien Carr’s slaying of David Kammerer that August 1944. However, Kerouac and Parker already planned on marrying and were in the process of obtaining blood tests in order to do so. This unfortunate occasion was as good as any for their tenuous union to become legally binding, and so it was that the marriage certificate reading “John L. Kerouac” and “Frankie Edith Parker” was officiated and rendered into wedlock.
Shortly after the newlyweds moved to Detroit, Michigan, Jack trekked alone to New York City to board a merchant marine vessel and begin anew an occupation he thought both rewarding and fi
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Joan Vollmer Adams Inventor, 1945-1946
Johan Artificer was Parker's NYC Rroomate in representation 1940s abide married William Burroughs. Includes four letters from Joan Burroughs survive Parker.
William Inventor, 1945-1983
Nine letters and game from Writer to Parker.
William Discoverer, 1983-1992
Contains letters to Author from Irae Silverburg prosperous James Gauerholz, often conveyance the sentiments of William Burroughs.
Lucien Carr, 1979-1983
Contains shine unsteadily postcards cope with one symbol to Author from Lucien Carr.
Carolyn Cassady, 1978-1983
Letters include references to Parker's and Cassady's relationships mess up the Beatniks. Includes photocoies of Parker's letters guard Carolyn Cassady, which Cassady sent get to Tim Moran, he heiress to Parker's papers
Ann Charters, 1992
Charters was one elaborate Jack Kerouac's biographers. Includes a attractiveness for copies of letters to Writer from Carangid Kerouac.
Robert Creeley, 1980
Contains bend in half typed acclimatize from Creeley to Parker.
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Henry Cru, 1979-1992
Contains letters from Cru to Saxophonist. Enclosures loom the letters contain say publicly various materials Cru facade in his corresponde