Jim Morrison’s Sister Reveals His Last Wishes, From Wanting a Family to Quitting Music
- by Cheyenne Rountree
THE DOORS FRONTMAN’S SISTER ANNE MORRISON CHEWNING HELPED COMPILE HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF HIS MUSINGS, POETRY, AND LYRICS—HONORING THE SINGER’S WISH TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AS A WRITER.
When Jim Morrison’s younger sister was escorted into a bank vault to see the trove of notebooks that the 27-year-old music god had left behind after his tragic death, she was overwhelmed.
In 2009, upon gaining control of half the estate after her parents passed, Anne Morrison Chewning found herself partially responsible for carrying on the legacy of The Doors frontman. The 74-year-old and her brother Andrew own half the estate, while the other half is under the supervision of the family of Morrison’s late partner Pamela Courson, who died of an overdose in 1974, three years after Morrison, also at the age of 27.
“I didn’t realize how much we had,” Chewning tells The Daily Beast. “It was very exciting because I’ve been wanting to see them forever. Then, of course, we had to decide what we were going to do with them. What do you do with someone’s journals like that?”
