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Joyce Johnson (author)
American novelist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the American author of fiction. For the Professor Emerita of music at Spelman College, see Joyce Johnson (organist).
Joyce Johnson is an American author of fiction and nonfiction. She was born Joyce Glassman in 1935 to a Jewish family in New York City[1] and raised in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, a few blocks from the apartment of Joan Vollmer Adams where William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac lived from 1944 to 1946. She was a child actress and appeared in the Broadway production of I Remember Mama, which she writes about in her 2004 memoir Missing Men.
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Born | Joyce Glassman 1935 (age 88ā89) New York City, United States |
Occupation | Author |
Notable works | Minor Characters |
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