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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...
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. Allen Ginsberg and Kerouac were frequent visitors to Burroughs' apartment.
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6 apr 2017 · Joyce Johnson in 2009. More than a memoir of her time with the Beats, “Minor Characters” is a riveting portrait of an era. Schiffer-Fuchs/ullstein bild, via Getty Images. Johnson captures this...
Joyce Johnson has 101 books on Goodreads with 13971 ratings. Joyce Johnson’s most popular book is Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir.
2 mar 2022 · Joyce Johnson, Kerouac's former lover and biographer, recounts his struggle to write and publish On the Road, his masterpiece of the Beat generation. She also reflects on his reaction to the controversy over Allen Ginsberg's Howl and his disillusionment with America.
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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