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Edie Parker
American writer (1922–1993)
Edie Parker
Edie Kerouac-Parker (September 20, 1922 – October 29, 1993) was an American writer who was the author of the memoir You'll Be Okay, about her life with her first husband, Jack Kerouac, and the early days of the Beat Generation. While an art student under George Grosz at Barnard College, she and fellow Barnard student and friend Joan Vollmer shared an apartment on 118th Street in New York City which came to be frequented by many of the then unknown Beats, among them Vollmer's eventual husband William S. Burroughs, and fellow Columbia students Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg as well as Lucien Carr. Born Frances Edith Parker in Detroit, to Walter Milton Parker, Jr. and Charlotte Frances (née Maire) Parker, and was raised in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan. The 18-year old Edie met Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (aka Jack Kerouac) while an art student at Columbia University. The couple were married on August 22, 1944, at Manhattan Municipal Building in a civil ceremony in downtown New York. At the...
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