Alene Lee
Alene Lee (1931–1991) was an African-American member of the Beat generation in New York City whose romantic relationship with Jack Kerouac was the central theme in his novel The Subterraneans. Kerouac used the pseudonym Mardou Fox for Lee.[1] Lee was also the model for the character of Irene May in Book of Dreams and Big Sur.[2] Lee shunned publicity, but her daughter has written about her life. [3]
Born Arlene Garris, in Washington D.C., she grew up in Staten Island, New York and met Jack Kerouac in 1953, when she was typing manuscripts for Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.[4]
References
- ^ Campbell, James (November 2001). This is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris. University of California Press. pp. 138–139. ISBN 0-520-23033-7.
- ^ O'Sullivan, Steven. "Alene Lee, AKA Mardou Fox: Subterranean Muse". Beatdom (4): 60–62.
- ^ Diamente, Christina (2010-02-17). "Walking With the Barefoot Beat: Alene Lee". Beatdom. David S. Wills. Archived from the original on 2017-04-22. Retrieved 2017-04-22.
- ^ "Mardoux Fox was more than Kerouac's Muse".
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- The Sea Is My Brother (1942)
- And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945/2008; with William S. Burroughs)
- The Town and the City (1950)
- On the Road (1957)
- The Subterraneans (1958)
- The Dharma Bums (1958)
- Doctor Sax (1959)
- Maggie Cassidy (1959)
- Book of Dreams (1960)
- Tristessa (1960)
- Visions of Cody (1960)
- Lonesome Traveler (1960)
- Big Sur (1962)
- Visions of Gerard (1963)
- Desolation Angels (1965)
- Satori in Paris (1966)
- Vanity of Duluoz (1968)
- Pic (1971)
- Orpheus Emerged (2002)
- Pull My Daisy (late 1940s)
- Mexico City Blues (1959)
- The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960)
- Scattered Poems (1971)
- Old Angel Midnight (1973)
- Book of Haikus (2003)
- Book of Sketches (2006)
- Beat Generation (2005)
- Atop an Underwood (1991)
- Good Blonde & Others (1993)
- Poetry for the Beat Generation (1959)
- Blues and Haikus (1960)
- Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation (1960)
- The Jack Kerouac Collection (1990)
- Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness (1997)
- Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road (1999)
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