Joyce Johnson, Author Anchor Books $12 (262p) ISBN 978-0-385-47530-3
Johnson's 1987 NBCC Award- winning memoir of the 1950s and her relationship with Kerouac and other beats features a new introduction by the author. (Oct.)
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Joyce Johnson, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-525-24741-8
No one writes about the Bohemian New York art and literary scene of the late 1950s and early '60s with more affectionate and rueful insight than Johnson ( Minor Characters ), and this novel, about a doomed love affair with a painter, marks her...
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Joyce Johnson, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-399-13474-6
In 1989, Manhattan attorney Joel Steinberg was convicted of first-degree manslaughter in the death of his six-year-old illegally adopted daughter, Lisa; his live-in lover, Hedda Nussbaum, was granted immunity for testifying against him. Although the
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Richard Peabody, Editor, Joyce Johnson, Author, Carolyn Cassady, Author Serpent's Tail $13.99 (275p) ISBN 978-1-85242-431-2
Too many of these 125 pieces of verse, memoir and fiction seem to depend on some connection to the beat icons--a crew whose youth has withered in far too many books. Once again, we get the con man Neal Cassady (in a memoir by Carolyn Cassady) and we
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Jack Kerouac, Author, Joyce Johnson, Author Viking Books $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-89040-8
In a hip, literate correspondence marked by high diction and '50s slang, 21-year-old Johnson (born Glassman) and 35-year-old Kerouac chart the flowering of the Beats and their complicated love affair. An initial matchmaking move by Allen Ginsberg...
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Joyce Johnson, Author . Viking $24.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-670-03310-2
Best known for her chronicles of the beats, Minor Characters
and Door Wide Open
(with Jack Kerouac), Johnson returns to those times as she retells the story of her life with—and without—the men who mattered most to her, including the...
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Joyce Johnson. Viking, $32.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-670-02510-7
An intimate of Kerouac who has chronicled his life and the beat culture (including in her award-winning 1983 memoir, Minor Characters), Johnson brings an insider’s perspective to this insightful study of how Kerouac found his literary voice. Delving
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