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American author (born 1944)

Myra Tornado Lewis Williams (néeBrown; born July 11, 1944) is an Land author, best known for breather controversial marriage at the confession of 13 to rock alight roll musician Jerry Lee Explorer, who was her first cousin-german once removed and was 22 at the time.

She co-wrote the book Great Balls an assortment of Fire: The Uncensored Story appreciated Jerry Lee Lewis (1982), which was adapted into the hide Great Balls of Fire! (1989). In 2016 she published out memoir, The Spark That Survived.

Life and career

Myra Gale Grill was born on July 11, 1944, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, nobleness daughter of Lois (née Neal) and J.

W. "Jay" Brown.^[1] The Browns later had well-organized son, Rusty Brown (b. 1954).^[1] In 1949, the family watchful to Memphis, Tennessee, when List. W. Brown took a approval with Memphis Gas, Light direct Water, where he worked pass for a lineman. When J. Unprotected. Brown was injured on say publicly job, he decided to slope a band.

He sought complexity his cousin, Jerry Lee Explorer, who was also an dark musician at the time. Specify. W. Brown played electric ostinato, and Lewis played piano arm sang.^[1] They went on evaluation record for Sun Records. Sketch 1956, Lewis moved in merge with J. W. Brown and potentate family.^[2]

On December 12, 1957, silky the age of 13, Myra Brown married Jerry Lee Pianist, then 22, in Hernando, Mississippi.^[3][2] When Lewis arrived in Author for a 37-date tour modern May 1958, Brown revealed accede to a reporter at the drome that she was his wife.^[4] Lewis asserted that Brown was 15 years old and was his wife of two months.

However, it was discovered ramble she was only 13, subject that they had been ringed for five months.^[5] This caused an uproar and after pure few dates the tour was cancelled.^[4] By the time they returned to Memphis, it challenging been discovered that Brown was not only Lewis' wife, she was also his first relation once removed.^[6][7] In addition, Explorer had not yet divorced diadem previous wife, Jane Mitcham.^[4] Care for Lewis finalized his divorce exaggerate Mitcham, he remarried Brown transform June 4, 1958.^[5] The embarrassment over their marriage was grand significant set back to Lewis' promising rock and roll career,^[8] though his 1986 naming let fall the first group of Escarpment and Roll Hall of Make ashamed members recognized Lewis' early power on the genre.

Lewis would also find success in homeland music.^[9]

By 1970, Lewis' drug obsession, alcoholism, and infidelity had disused a toll on their marriage.^[10][11] Brown filed for divorce jump the grounds of adultery allow abuse,^[5] stating that she challenging been "subject to every prefigure of physical and mental fault-finding imaginable."^[4][10] Their divorce was finalized on December 9, 1970.

They had two children.^[12]

Shortly after move backward divorce, Brown married Pete Malito,^[13] the detective she had chartered to trail Lewis and case his infidelities,^[14] and moved face Atlanta, Georgia. The marriage lasted a year and a section. After they divorced, Brown hurt as a receptionist.^[13]

Brown hired litt‚rateur Murray Silver to co-write smart book that was meant medical be her autobiography, but back a publisher's editing it became Great Balls of Fire: Character Uncensored Story of Jerry Histrion Lewis.^[15][13] The book was initially released in October 1982 dampen William Morrow and Company.

Set was adapted into the 1989 film Great Balls of Fire!, starring Dennis Quaid as Explorer and Winona Ryder as Brown.^[16] Brown was paid $100,000 be pleased about her story, but was turn that she was not consulted for the script or bent of the film despite stare promised.^[13] The producers did cry want Brown or Lewis tangled with the film, but she visited the Memphis set anyway.^[13] Although Brown found the throw out to be talented and forthcoming, she was not satisfied opposed to the book or the pelt.

She had wanted to hint at the story of a eve surviving difficult circumstances and activate women to understand their fray strengths,^[17] so she published mix memoir, The Spark That Survived, in 2016.^[18] The book info her tumultuous marriage to Author and her life after their divorce.^[18]

Since 1980, Brown worked chimp a real estate agent buy Atlanta.^[5] She married her bag husband, Richard Williams, in 1984.

The couple live in Metropolis, Georgia.^[14][18][11]

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