Bonnie Bremser
Bonnie Bremser (b. 1939), born Brenda Frazer is a Beat writer and protofeminist figure known for Troia: Mexican Memoirs, also published in the U.K. as For Love of Ray.[1]
Life and career
Bremser was born Brenda Frazer in 1939 in Washington, D.C. She briefly attended Sweet Briar College in Virginia before dropping out to marry Ray Bremser, whom she'd met three weeks earlier.[1]
Bremser and her husband and daughter later fled to Mexico because her husband was wanted for parole violation. In Mexico, she engaged in sex work. After Ray Bremser was jailed, Bonnie Bremser sent him weekly two-page letters chronicling their journey in Mexico. She has said the couple told jail authorities that the letters were business correspondence to get around a one-page personal letter maximum. Those letters later were compiled into Troia: Mexican Memoirs.[2]
Reception
Troia has been described as a "lost classic of experimental writing that speaks the movement’s aesthetics and ethos from the vantage of a woman living the 'beat' life."[1] Bremser's work frequently draws comparisons to Jack Kerouac for her autobiographical chronicle of life on the road.
References
- ^ a b c Johnson, Ronna. "Troia : Mexican Memoirs". Bookforum. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ "Bonnie Bremser". The Allen Ginsberg Project. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
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