Background
Weimer, Joan was born on March 12, 1936 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of David Levetan Shoolman and J. Florence Hurwitz.
( Joan Weimer had spent three years researching the life ...)
Joan Weimer had spent three years researching the life of nineteenth-century novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson for a critical biography when a devastating back injury left her virtually immobile. Pain reshaped her research as she discovered more about Woolson's writing, family, and grief. The imaginative relationship she developed with Woolson—chronicled in this heart-felt book— helped Weimer to escape her physical disability as she wrestled with the question of how to redefine herself. In this elegant, humorous, and brutally frank memoir, Weimer's discoveries—documentative and imaginative, historical and personal—reveal much about what motivates research, and what motivates healing.
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Weimer, Joan was born on March 12, 1936 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of David Levetan Shoolman and J. Florence Hurwitz.
Bachelor, Tufts University, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, 1970.
Professor English Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, since 1968. Leader workshops on writing spiritual memoirs, writing through improvisation, writing with imagined collaborator for colleges, conferences, and bookstores, since 1994.
( Joan Weimer had spent three years researching the life ...)
Member coordinator committee Center New Jersey/Masaya Nicaragua Friendship Cities, Plainfield, New Jersey, 1985-1988. Co-founder Madison area chapter Amnesty International, 1963.
Married Ronald E. Myers, November 3, 1956 (divorced January 1970). Children: David, Mark, Leslie. Married David R. Weimer, March 21, 1971.