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Joyce Johnson

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born

January 01, 1935 in New York, The United States

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female

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Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

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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 Burroughs' apartment.
At the age of 13, Joyce rebelled against her controlling parents and began hanging out in Washington Square. She matriculated at Barnard College at 16, failing her graduation by one class. It was at Barnard that she became friends with Elise Cowen (briefly Allen Ginsberg's lover) who introduced her to the Beat circle. Ginsberg arranged for Glassman and Kerouac to meet on a blind date.
Joyce was married briefly to abstract painter James Johnson, who was killed in a...more

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Books by Joyce Johnson

Average rating: 3.87 · 4,951 ratings · 256 reviews · 45 distinct works

	Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson, Ann Douglas (Introduction) 3.97 avg rating — 616 ratings — 16 editions	My rating:
	What Lisa Knew: The Truth and Lies of the Steinberg Case by Joyce Johnson, Josephine Johnson 3.71 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	In the Night Cafe 3.73 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Missing Men: A Memoir 3.38 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Come and Join the Dance 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1961 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Twisted Tapestries 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	Rough Magic 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Bessie Head: The Road of Peace of Mind 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Love's Quest 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Cuckoo in the Nest 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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“I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.”
― Joyce Johnson, Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958

tags: hopeless , kerouac , love , rescue-mentality , sacrifice

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“If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.”
― Joyce Johnson

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“I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.”
― Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir

tags: beat , beats , feminism

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