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Authors: Joyce Johnson
Joyce Johnson was born in 1935 in New York City,
the setting for all her fiction:
Come and Join the Dance
, recognized as the first
Beat novel by a woman writer,
Bad Connections
, and
In the Night Café
. She
is best known for her memoir
Minor Characters
, which won the National Book
Critics Circle Award in 1983 and dealt with coming of age in the 1950s and with her
involvement with Jack Kerouac. She has published two other Beat-related books:
Door
Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters
, and
The Voice Is All: The Lonely
Victory of Jack Kerouac
. She has also written a second memoir,
Missing
Men
, and the nonfiction title
What Lisa Knew: The Truths and Lies of the
Steinberg Case
.
All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this ebook or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 1961 by Joyce Glassman
Cover design by Drew Padrutt
ISBN 978-1-4804-8119-0
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