Jack Kerouac Personally Owned 1964 Issue of the "Red Clay Reader"

Jack Kerouac's personal copy of "Red Clay Reader" edited by Charleen Whisnant. Charlotte: Southern Review, 1964. Small quarto, 93pp. Black and white photographs throughout. With analysis on various pieces from Fiction, Non-Fiction, Drama, Criticism, Poetry, Satire, and more. Stamped on the front free end page with both a Jack Kerouac Estate stamp and the raised blind seal from the Executor of the Estate, John Sampas, who was the brother-in-law of Jack Kerouac and the brother of Stella Kerouac, Jack's wife. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Binding is coming loose at the spine. Scratching, toning, and light soiling to the boards. Cracked spine and bumped worn corners. Light toning throughout.

Charleen Whisnant Swansea (1933-2018) graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1956 with an M.A. in Modern Poetry. During her college years, she befriended and began a correspondence with poet Ezra Pound, who was then being held at St. Elizabeth's Psychiatric Hospital in Washington, D.C. After graduation, Swansea remained at UNC to teach English for one year before moving back to Charlotte, where she taught at Queens College until 1964. The "Red Clay Reader" was founded in 1964 by Swansea as an annual magazine that published the work of southern authors and artists. She would go on to edit the magazine until 1970, at which time she founded Red Clay Publishers to publish books by women writers.

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