![]() ![]() ![]() Her work has been published in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere. A writer who likes to try out different genres, she is also the author of the novels Bad Connections and In the Night Cafe, as well as Door Wide Open: A Beat Romance in Letters a second memoir Missing Men, and What Lisa Knew: The Truths and Lies of the Steinberg Case, her first foray into investigative journalism. ![]() Born in New York, the city that has been the setting for all of her eight books, she published Come and Join the Dance, now considered the first Beat novel by a woman, at the age of twenty-six.įive years earlier, in January 1957, she met Jack Kerouac on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg-the beginning of a love affair that lasted for nearly two years, which she later wrote about in Minor Characters. Best known for her memoir Minor Characters, which won a 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award, Joyce Johnson has just published The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac, in which she follows Kerouac’s development as a writer through 1951. ![]()
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