Background
Johnson, Joyce was born on September 27, 1935 in New York City. Daughter of Daniel and Rosalind (Ross) Glassman.
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The daring debut of the Beat Generation's first woman novelist It's 1955. Seven days before her graduation from Barnard College, Susan Levitt asks herself, "What if you lived your entire life without urgency? just before going out to make things happen to her that will shatter the mask of conformity concealing her feelings of alienation. If Susan continues to be "good", marriage and security await her. But her hunger is rising for the self-discovery that comes from existential freedom. After breaking up with the Columbia boy she knows she could marry, Susan seeks out those she considers "outlaws" the brave and fragile Kay, who has moved into a rundown hotel, in order to "see more than fifty percent when I walk down the street" the vulnerable adolescent rebel Anthony; and Peter, the restless hipster graduate student who has become the object of Kay's unrequited devotion. This fascinating novel-which the author began writing a year before her encounter with Jack Kerouac-is a young woman's complex response to the liberating messages of the Beat Generation. In a subversive feminist move, Johnson gives her heroine all the freedom the male Beat writers reserved for men to travel her own road"
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The award-winning author of Minor Characters writes with delicious transparency about a love that cannot be harnessed and a woman who refuses to be deceived In the great wave of husband-leaving ushered in by the Sexual Revolution, Molly Held frees herself from her cold, flagrantly unfaithful husband after their final quarrel turns violent. With her five-year-old son, she lights out for an Upper West Side apartment and the new life she hopes to find with Conrad Schwartzberg-the charismatic radical lawyer who has recently become her lover. Having escaped from a desert, she lands in a swamp. While Conrad radiates positive energy, he is unable to tell Molly-or anyone who loves him-the truth. No longer the wronged wife, Molly now finds herself the Other Woman. She is sharing Conrad with Roberta, another refugee from marriage-with Conrad's movements between the two of them disguised by his suspiciously frequent out-of-town engagements. Roberta either knows nothing or prefers to look the other way, but Molly's maddening capacity for double vision takes over her mind. What saves her from herself is her well-developed sense of irony, which never fails her-or the reader.
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Jack Kerouac. Allen Ginsberg. William S. Burroughs. LeRoi Jones. Theirs are the names primarily associated with the Beat Generation. But what about Joyce Johnson (nee Glassman), Edie Parker, Elise Cowen, Diane Di Prima, and dozens of others? These female friends and lovers of the famous iconoclasts are now beginning to be recognized for their own roles in forging the Beat movement and for their daring attempts to live as freely as did the men in their circle a decade before Women's Liberation.Twenty-one-year-old Joyce Johnson, an aspiring novelist and a secretary at a New York literary agency, fell in love with Jack Kerouac on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg nine months before the publication of On the Road made Kerouac an instant celebrity. While Kerouac traveled to Tangiers, San Francisco, and Mexico City, Johnson roamed the streets of the East Village, where she found herself in the midst of the cultural revolution the Beats had created. Minor Characters portrays the turbulent years of her relationship with Kerouac with extraordinary wit and love and a cool, critical eye, introducing the reader to a lesser known but purely original American voice: her own.
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Johnson, Joyce was born on September 27, 1935 in New York City. Daughter of Daniel and Rosalind (Ross) Glassman.
Student, Barnard College, 1955.
Associate editor William Morrow & Co, New York City, 1965-1967. Senior editor Dial Press, 1967-1970, executive editor, 1977-1984. Senior editor McGraw Hill Book Company, 1970-1977, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York City, 1984-1987.
Contributing editor Vanity Fair, since 1987.
(The award-winning author of Minor Characters writes with ...)
(The daring debut of the Beat Generation's first woman nov...)
(Jack Kerouac. Allen Ginsberg. William S. Burroughs. LeRoi...)
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association.
Married James Johnson, December 12, 1962 (deceased 1963). Married Peter Pinchbeck, November 21, 1965 (divorced 1971). 1 child, Daniel.
