Joyce Johnson is an American author of fiction and nonfiction, whose writing has been closely associated with the Beat Generation. She was also a child actress and appeared in the Broadway production of I Remember Mama, which she went on to …

Joyce Johnson (née Glassman) was born in 1935 in New York, the city that has been the setting for all her books. At eight, she began her brief career as a child actress, which included a role in the original Broadway production of I Remember Mama. She attended Hunter College High School and entered Barnard College in 1951 when she was sixteen.

2018年1月12日 · Sixty years ago, uptown was the least likely place you’d find Joyce Johnson. She was fleeing her conservative 1950s upbringing and stultifying Barnard education for a …

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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 …

Joyce Johnson (born 1935) is an American author of fiction and nonfiction who won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir Minor Characters about her relationship with Jack Kerouac.

2016年9月14日 · Joyce Johnson is an award-winning author who also has an important role in the Beat Generation. After Jack Kerouac's death, she helped get Visions of Cody published.

Though Joyce will forever be a New York girl at heart, she has lived in South Carolina, Massachusetts, California, Tennesee, New Hampshire, and Connecticut with her husband, two cats, a pug named Thor, and a French Bulldog, Brie. When she's not writing, you can find her reading, cycling, making jewelry, and traveling the globe.

2020年4月6日 · Born in 1935, Joyce Johnson is a memoirist and novelist, best known for Minor Characters, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983. Her eight books include the novels Come and Join the Dance, Bad Connections and In …

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