Joyce Johnson

Joyce Johnson, born as Joyce Glassman, ( born September 27, 1935) is an American writer. She was from 1957 to 1958 the partner of Jack Kerouac.

Joyce Glassman had gone with Elise Cowen to school, who had an affair with the poet Allen Ginsberg and Ginsberg brought Joyce Glassman end of 1956, along with Kerouac, by arranging a blind date for her and Jack Kerouac. The two were together until 1958.

"In principle, Kerouac's possible relationship with her which with his other girlfriends, but there were also some differences: the relationship lasted longer, Johnson was an intellectual, and the intensity of their infatuation reflected the hunger of the next generation, the On the Road should celebrate. "

After the relationship end Joyce Johnson worked as an editor and wrote two novels. With 47 years she published her memoir Minor Characters that give an insider's view from the perspective of a young woman in the Beat Generation. The book shows especially the personality of Jack Kerouac, the difficult coped with the overnight -grown celebrity. Minor Characters in 1983 was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Works

• Come and Join the Dance. In 1962. ( Under her maiden name Joyce Glassman )
• Bad Connections. 1978
• Minor Characters. 1983rd ( German: Waiting for Kerouac: A Life in the Beat Generation Goldmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-442-72429-5; edited edition under the title. " Wren Inside: New York Memories", edition of five, Graefelfing 2010, ISBN 978-3-942374-03-3 )
• What Lisa Knew. In 1990. ( German: Lisa's secret: the shocking story of a family Heyne, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-453-06404-6. )