Background
Johnson, Nora was born on January 31, 1933 in Hollywood, California, United States. Daughter of Nunnally Hunter Johnson and Marion (Byrnes) Johnson Flynn.
(Nora Johnson was a young child when her parents' marriage...)
Nora Johnson was a young child when her parents' marriage collapsed. Her father, Nunnally Johnson, the writer, producer, or director of many acclaimed movies, such as The Grapes of Wrath and The Dirty Dozen, remained in California, where he would continue to be a major Hollywood presence for more than three decades. Nora's mother, Marion, a beautiful but unsettled woman, took her to New York to start a new life -- one surrounded by her mother's lovers and eccentric literary friends instead of movie stars and studio heads. Coast to Coast is Nora's account of a childhood spent shuttling between Manhattan and Hollywood. What emerges is a marvelous portrait of American life in the 1940s and 1950s -- from the movie lots of California to the cocktail parties of the Upper East Side -- and also a touching story of a shrewd, observant girl who would grow up far too fast. Nora shares the colorful details of a childhood spent in privilege, but also captures the painful loneliness of changing schools, four-day train trips from one coast to the other, and never being quite sure of where she belonged. She also brings to life her droll, charming, talented father -- a Thurberesque character in Hollywood -- and her beautiful and erratic mother, a woman who fled the Los Angeles movie colony life but was unable to forget the husband who took her there. Coast to Coast is a wonderfully written portrait of a fascinating era and a child who came of age in it, who had everything she wanted -- except a place to call home.
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Val and Marian, two teenage school girls growing up in New York City, are misfits. Val, virtually ignored by her wealthy parents, lives at a boarding house where she is watched over by an arty but childless couple. Marian lives with her divorced mother and her mother's friend and rarely sees her father. Marian spends her afternoons eating sundaes at a local drugstore; Val disappears mysteriously each afternoon before school is let out. They don't seem to have much in common with the other girls at their school nor even with each other. Yet together they find friendship and adventure in this poignant and witty novel, as they follow the life of one mediocre pianist, and learn what it means to grow up.
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Johnson, Nora was born on January 31, 1933 in Hollywood, California, United States. Daughter of Nunnally Hunter Johnson and Marion (Byrnes) Johnson Flynn.
She was educated at the Brearley School, Abbot Academy, and Smith College, from which she graduated in 1954.
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(Nora Johnson was a young child when her parents' marriage...)
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Authors Guild.
Married Leonard A. Siwek, February 19, 1955 (divorced 1964). Children: Marion, Paula. Married John. A. Milici, April 18, 1964 (divorced 1975).
Children: Justin J., Jonathan F.