- Edie Kerouac Parker was married to Jack Kerouac. She died in 1993 in the USA.
- SpouseJack Kerouac(August 22, 1944 - December 1946) (annulled)
- Her roommate was Joan Vollmer Adams, future wife of William S. Burroughs. Through Edie, Kerouac met Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Burroughs and Ginsberg would remain friends with Edie to the end of their lives.
- Was Kerouac's muse and had significant influence upon his writing. Stayed in contact with Kerouac until his death in 1969; he wrote her letters toward the end of his life, referring to her as his "life's wife".
- Met Jack Kerouac while they were students at Columbia in the early 1940's.
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