Author: Matthew Taub / Source: Atlas Obscura
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow may be the United States’ most famous outlaw lovers. Together, they racked up a record of murders, thefts, and kidnappings from Texas to Missouri, Arkansas to Oklahoma.
They were immortalized on screen by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, and in song by Beyoncé and Jay-Z.So it’s easy for the couple’s literary achievements to fly under the radar. But in April, Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas, will sell a notebook containing what appears to be original poetry written by Bonnie and Clyde.
The notebook, made of green leatherette, is a 1933 “Year Book”—essentially a daily planner for the year. The book’s original owner, apparently a serious or even professional golf player, seems to have tossed the book before the couple recovered it and converted it into a poetry workbook, a creative outlet for them to document and ruminate on their deeds. The poems have been held by the Barrow family since the couple’s deaths, and were consigned to Heritage by Clyde’s nephew.
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