Edie Parker Kerouac at home in Detroit MI, November 1986. (Photo: James E. Perrizo, courtesy Ginsberg Collection / Stanford University)
Edie was there from the very beginning. Lucien Carr had met her in the fall of 1943, around the same time she started dating Jack Kerouac. By early 1944 Lucien brought Burroughs over to her apartment - 421 West 118th Street, which she shared with Joan Vollmer - to ask Jack about working in the merchant marines. It was at that same apartment Allen and Jack would meet a few months after that, tho Allen and Edie were well acquainted by then.
Her memoir You’ll be OK, was published by City Lights in 2007.
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