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Joyce Johnson is an American author of fiction and nonfiction. She was born Joyce Glassman in 1935 to a Jewish family in New York City [1] and raised in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, a few blocks from the apartment of Joan Vollmer Adams where William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac lived from 1944 to 1946.
Si chiama Joyce Johnson e a differenza di molte delle ragazze di Kerouac finite nell’oblio ha saputo ritagliarsi uno spazio tutto suo. È una delle poche donne beat che è riuscita a scrollarsi di...
Genre. Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction. edit data. Born Joyce Glassman to a Jewish family in Queens, New York, Joyce was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, just around the corner from the apartment of William S. Burroughs and Joan Vollmer Burroughs.
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6 apr 2017 · Joyce Johnson was 21 and not long out of Barnard College when, in the winter of 1957, Allen Ginsberg set her up on a blind date with Jack Kerouac. She took the subway downtown to meet him at a...
Joyce Johnson has 104 books on Goodreads with 13871 ratings. Joyce Johnson’s most popular book is Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir.
1 lug 1999 · Joyce Johnson's memoir of emerging from an overprotected childhood and landing at the center of the Beat movement in the 1950's is a delight whether you choose to read it for its portrait of Jack Kerouac, for the world that was, or for the inner journey it reveals.
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1 lug 1999 · Joyce Johnson's eight books include the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award winner Minor Characters, the recent memoir Missing Men, the novel In the Night Cafe,...
