Jerilyn Lee Brandelius

Jerilyn Lee Brandelius (June 25, 1948 – August 31, 2020) was an American writer and photographer and was known as the author of The Grateful Dead Family Album.

Early life Brandelius was born in La Jolla, California, the eldest of five children born to Dorothy Anne Reid, a homemaker, and Edwin Carl "Brandy" Brandelius II, a US Marine. She had a relationship with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart.

In 1969, Brandelius moved to San Francisco, met music promoter and cultural icon Chet Helms (founder of the Avalon Ballroom and father of San Francisco's 1967 Summer of Love). She worked for him as a personal assistant until she went to work for Pete Marino at WEA as a production assistant. Her photographic archive includes rare images from the Grateful Dead's 1978 tour to Egypt.

In 1989, Brandelius published the book The Grateful Dead Family Album with cover art by Stanley Mouse. The book was originally signed to a small publisher but re-signed and pushed into full production with Warner Bros. following Jerry Garcia's hospitalization and near fatal diabetic coma in 1986.

Television and documentary Brandelius appeared in the 1995 documentary Tie-Died which offers a look at the band and the fans known as "Deadheads". She appeared in American Experience, a television documentary series aired on PBS, in a 2007 episode titled "Summer of Love".