Edie Kerouac-Parker (September 20, 1922 – October 29, 1993)[1] 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.
The 18-year old Edie met Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (aka Jack Kerouac) while an art student at Columbia University.
The couple left New York on a train in September 1944 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 (1926–2009).
In the 1980s and early 1990s 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.
[5] Edie appears as Judie Smith in Kerouac's novel The Town and the City, Elly in Visions of Cody, Edna "Johnnie" Palmer of Vanity of Duluoz, and herself in "The Original Scroll" – the unedited edition of On the Road.