Reviewed relationship
How are Edie Parker and Jack Kerouac connected?
former spouses
The short answer
The cited source describes Edie Parker and Jack Kerouac as former spouses.
The Edie Parker and Jack Kerouac relationship is described here as former spouses. This answer comes from one statement in the cited source, so it does not claim details beyond that reviewed evidence.
What the source says
“Spouses Jack Kerouac (m. 1944; ann. 1952) Michael Dietz (m. 1950; div. 1959) Patrick Garvin (m. 1959; div. 1969) 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-ye”
Spouses field identifies Jack Kerouac.
Documented period: 1944
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