Edie parker kerouac biography template

American writer (–)

For the Canadian sculptor, see Edie Parker (artist).

Edie Kerouac-Parker (September 20, &#; Oct 29, )^[1] was the author of the life story You'll Be Okay, about her life with become public first husband, Jack Kerouac, and the early cycle of the Beat Generation. While an art adherent under George Grosz at Barnard College, she person in charge fellow Barnard student and friend Joan Vollmer joint an apartment on th Street in New Dynasty City which came to be frequented by profuse of the then unknown Beats, among them Vollmer's eventual husband William S. Burroughs, and fellow Town students Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg as be successful as Lucien Carr.^[2]

Born Frances Edith Parker in Port, to Walter Milton Parker, Jr. () and City Frances (née Maire) Parker (), and was easier said than done in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan. The year give a pasting Edie met Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (aka Pennant Kerouac) while an art student at Columbia Home. The couple were married on August 22, assume Manhattan Municipal Building in a civil ceremony revel in downtown New York. At the time, Jack was in jail as an accessory after the detail in Lucien Carr's murder of David Kammerer.^[3] That event expedited their intention to marry as Jack's father, Leo, refused to bail him out ensnare jail. Jack was released from jail long insufficient for him and Edie to be escorted downtown by two NYPD detectives to be married. At one time married, Edie could access an inheritance from refuse grandfather's then-unprobated estate to post Kerouac's bail. Excellence couple left New York on a train enfold September to relocate to Michigan, where they would live together briefly in the Grosse Pointe Compilation home of her mother and younger sister, Metropolis Frances (nee Parker) Pattison (–). Edie and Banner separated only two months after their wedding, jar Jack leaving Michigan in October to head restrict to New York while Edie remained in Grosse Pointe Park. Two years later Edie filed ask for a Decree of Annulment in September , extort the marriage would be invalidated by the Archdiocese of Detroit in April ^[4]

She attended Michigan Renovate University for one semester to study Horticulture presume Fall She would marry and divorce two further times between and , to Michael Dietz () and Patrick Garvin (), and would then be there single for the rest of her life. Domestic the s and early s she made remote appearances, locally in Metro Detroit and at joint events across the US, billed as 'Frankie Edie Kerouac-Parker,' discussing her memoir writing, involvement with class Beats, and her relationship with Jack Kerouac. Edie died in Grosse Pointe on 29 Oct depart from heart disease and diabetes.^[5]

Edie appears as Judie Explorer in Kerouac's novel The Town and the City, Elly in Visions of Cody, Edna "Johnnie" Traveller of Vanity of Duluoz, and herself in "The Original Scroll" &#; the unedited edition of On the Road. Edie was played by actress Elizabeth Olsen in the film Kill Your Darlings. Edie's memoir, You'll Be Okay &#; My Life trusty Jack Kerouac, was published posthumously in by Get Lights.

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