And yet her work, like that of many other female artists and writers, has been ushered to the sidelines of the beat movement. She has won the National Book Critics award and the O Henry award. Her fiction and articles have appeared in publications including the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harper's, and the New York Times Magazine. She is herself an accomplished writer who has published three novels: Come and Join the Dance, In the Night Cafe and Bad Connections two memoirs: Minor Characters and Missing Men and a collection of her letters to and from Kerouac: Door Wide Open. What happened in between, in the time that Joyce Johnson spent with Jack Kerouac, has come if not to dominate then certainly to colour Johnson's life.įifty years after the publication of Kerouac's On the Road, Johnson's role as the author's former girlfriend has almost overshadowed her own work. Two years later, in 1958, it ended drunkenly, tearfully, outside a restaurant on a New York street corner. I t began at a restaurant counter on Eighth Avenue, on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg, he in a checked shirt, she in a red coat and lots of eyeshadow.
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