Edie parker kerouac biography of rory

The documents are not dated, but are estimated to have been written in the s. Typescript of a five-page screenplay written by Jack Kerouac. The title page states that the original story was by Henri Cru, who also served as the technical advisor. A related letter from Cru to Parker is included. Edie's in right, J. Contains a photocopied typescript of travel impressions and poems by Allen Ginsberg; sections of the Jack Kerouac biography, Memory Babe; and an article on Herbert Huncke.

Materials relating to Parker's marriage to Jack Kerouac, to income received from a trust fund, and to a debt settlement court case. Arrangement: Arrangement: Folder 88 contains biographical materials relating to Parker. Folders contain the contents of 13 scrapbooks made by Parker. The scrapbooks are dismantled. Printouts of the photographed layout of pages can be found at the beginning of each scrapbook's materials.

Materials include clippings, photos, and printed ephemera. The themes of the scrapbooks are for the most part either Parker and her family or Jack Kerouac and other Beat writers. Photos of Henri Cru are also present. Original scrapbook titles have been retained. Jack Kerouac is the primary theme of this scrapbook. Many items are copies of originals found elsewhere in the collection, such as letters originals in Folder 22 and records pertaining to Kerouac's marriage to Parker originals in Folder Also included are photos of Kerouac, Henri Cru, and Parker's family, as well as a rare photo of Vicki Russell, a significant figure in Allen Ginsberg's life.

Contains clippings and printed materials regarding Kerouac. Included are photos of Parker and of Kerouac's grave. Contains clippings and printed materials on Kerouac, several of which refer to the film What Happened to Kerouac? Includes a letter to Parker from Nicosia regarding the role his Memory Babe played as background material for the film.

William Burroughs is the primary theme of this scrapbook. Contains clippings and printed materials on Burroughs, postcards of him, exhibit announcements of art by him, and a greeting card featuring one of his paintings sent by him to Parker. Also includes clippings and printed materials on the Naropa Institute's On the Road: The Jack Kerouac Conference, letters to Parker regarding her participation in the conference, and business cards collected by Parker at the event.

Additional materials on the conference are in Folder Contains clippings and printed materials on Allen Ginsberg, postcards from Ginsberg to Parker, and photos of Ginsberg and Parker at a book signing. Contains an invitation to the opening of the Jack Kerouac Commemorative, photos of Parker's family, and clippings on Asbury Park, N. Contains clippings and photocopies of articles on Parker, Jack Kerouac, and Kerouac-related productions.

Contains clippings and printed materials on Jack Kerouac, including several clippings on his death, on Kerouac-related events and productions, and on the Naropa Institute On the Road: The Jack Kerouac Conference, in which Parker participated. Also contains reviews of Beat biographies and autobiographies and coverage of the ouster of Barney Rosset from Grove Press.

Contains clippings and printed material related to Jack Kerouac and photocopies of letters regarding Parker's attempts to secure royalties from Kerouac's books originals in Folder Also included are a photo of Parker from the s, one of Carolyn Cassady and Jan Kerouac Jack Kerouac's daughter in , one of Robert Creeley, and two proofs of Kerouac in with Saul Bellow and an unidentified individual.

Contains clippings and printed material on Beat authors, publications, and Beat-related events and productions. Other materials include clippings and printed material on Jack Kerouac and Beat-related events, including coverage of talks on Kerouac by Parker. Contains clippings and printed material on Jack Kerouac, other Beat writers, and Beat associates.

Arrangement: Folders contain newsletters and magazines. Each title is arranged chronologically. Folder contains printed ephemera arranged chronologically, and Folders contain newspapers and clippings, also arranged chronologically. Pages of Soup, , contain five poems by Jack Kerouac the originals of which are in Folder Page 79 of Time contains a picture and brief coverage of the participants in the River City Reunion event in honor of William Burroughs.

Arrangement: Eight folders of photographic prints precede a folder of photographic negatives. Within each subject photos are arranged chronologically. Includes early s photos of Parker in Asbury Park, N. Other photos of Parker and unidentified individuals are included. On the back is written "Zagg," the nickname Kerouac was given based on the zigzag way in which he ran on the football field.

Two other photos are of unidentified individuals at the farm. Childhood photograph of Cru with another boy, identified on the back as Bill. Photograph, possibly of Cru, ca. Arrangement: Materials include information and letters regarding talks given by Parker and conferences she attended. Additional items include pawnbroker receipts from the s and Parker's press packet.

Original folder titles have been retained and are in quotes. Also includes several NYC pawnbroker receipts from ca. Dietz in an envelope labeled "Jack's wallet. Materials relating to the week-long artist event in Lawrence, Kan. Several Beat artists were present in addition to writers, scholars, and artists from around the country. Photos of many attendees are in Folder Contains high school reunion information, a two-page autobiographical piece by Kerouac, and information from Warren Peace, a recording artist.

Personal correspondence of Henri Cru. Haverty was Jack Kerouac's second wife and mother of his daughter, Jan Kerouac. This letter refers to child support back payments for Jan that Kerouac owed Haverty. Includes photos of Cru hospitalized during his last few days and letters regarding the settling of his estate. Moore was editor of The Kerouac Connection newsletter.

This letter to Cru regards additional questions Moore had for an interview he conducted with Cru. The interview was published in the Spring issue of The Kerouac Connection, number 13 see Folder Tim Moran was Cru's friend and caretaker. Folders contain correspondence between Cru and Moran. There are several instances in which Cru sent Moran photocopies of letters he wrote to someone else.

Contains a photocopy of a handwritten note and a telegram from Jack Kerouac to Cru. Also includes a letter addressed to Jim Perrizo, Parker's assistant for her memoirs, in which Cru recounts a story of Jack Kerouac asking Cru in the s to help him get on the train to visit his mother in Florida. Kerouac's previous attempts were unsuccessful because he got drunk on his way to the station.

Includes a 7 April card in which Parker initiates contact with Cru after 30 or more years. Includes a postcard from Cru's sister, Yvonne, and photos sent to Cru by an unidentified individual. Arrangement: Folder contains biographical materials relating to Cru. Folder contains the contents of a scrapbook. The scrapbook is dismantled. Printouts of the photographed layout of pages can be found at the beginning of the materials.

Also included is a fragment of the narrative from the scrapbook see Folder , and an obituary mounted in plastic of his father, Albert Cru. The scrapbook is a history of the Cru family and was a Christmas gift to Cru from his sister, Yvonne, in Materials include an eight-page narrative of the Cru family history, a family tree, and photos of family members and homes.

Arrangement: Newsletters precede an inner folder of clippings.

Edie parker kerouac biography of rory

Items are in chronological order within their format. Arrangement: A folder of photographic prints is followed by one of negatives and one of slides. Subject matter includes Cru, his friends and family, cities from his travels, and scenes of him at work as an electrician for the merchant marine. Arrangement: Chronological, loosely based on dates in the captions on the back of the photos.

Arrangement: Materials include address books, notebooks, printed ephemera, and a book. The book was "Edited with notes and vocabulary" by Cru's father, Albert L. Cru, and is dedicated to Henri Cru. It also contains an autographed inscription from Albert Cru to Henri Cru. Arrangement: Materials include items donated by John Moran, brother of Tim Moran, and forwarded to the library by the latter in no discernible order.

Arrangement: Items are separated by format into three folders of printed ephemera, magazines, and newspaper. Within each folder items are in chronological order. Materials include Beat-related newsletters, clippings, printed ephemera, and a typescript speech by Herbert Huncke. Materials include a letter, an Allen Ginsberg typescript, and photographs.

Materials in Folders consist of 11 x 14 photographs by Tim Moran. Access to this collection is limited. To inquire about using this collection, contact us at wilsonlibrary unc. Size 6. Parker and Cru dated until Cru introduced Parker to Kerouac in EPK: Impossible. He liked me. So the next day he wrote me a love letter AG: Ah! EPK: He delivered it by hand and he gave it to the bell-boy who brought it up to me and I was..

AG: What did it say? EPK: Oh, oh my god, he called me his birdnote and his.. AG: His what? EPK: Birdnote. He always called me his birdnote.. AG Bird note? EPK: Uh-huh. AG: Hmm. EPK: I remember that. GC: Wow! AG: And do you remember what book he was writing then? AG: You have it? EPK: Yes, I think so. The long-lost manuscript! Gregory Corso: Eighteen?

Eighteen years old? EPK: Yes. He never.. As long as I knew him he never stopped writing, never. He was always… AG: Well how did you get that manuscript, did you just… he left it with you? AG: But when he visited, when you got married and he visited there, he just left it there? EPK : Allen, can I tell you how he learned how to scat? AG: Yes. Once married, Edie could access an inheritance from her grandfather's then-unprobated estate to post Kerouac's bail.

The couple left New York on a train in September to relocate to Michigan, where they would live together briefly in the Grosse Pointe Park home of her mother and younger sister, Charlotte Frances nee Parker Pattison — Two years later Edie filed for a Decree of Annulment in September , and the marriage would be invalidated by the Archdiocese of Detroit in April She would marry and divorce two more times between and , to Michael Dietz and Patrick Garvin , and would then remain single for the rest of her life.

In the s and early s she made personal appearances, locally in Metro Detroit and at special events across the US, billed as 'Frankie Edie Kerouac-Parker,' discussing her memoir writing, involvement with the Beats, and her relationship with Jack Kerouac. Edie died in Grosse Pointe on 29 Oct from heart disease and diabetes. Contents move to sidebar hide.

Article Talk. Read Edit View history. This event expedited their intention to marry as Jack's father, Leo, refused to bail him out of jail. Jack was released from jail long enough for he and Edie to be escorted downtown by two N.