Joyce Johnson (author)

Who is this?

Joyce Johnson is an American author of fiction and nonfiction, whose writing has been closely associated with the Beat Generation. She was also a child actress and appeared in the Broadway production of I Remember Mama, which she went on to write about in her 2004 memoir Missing Men.

Career

1. 1935
   Born
2. 1983
   Won National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and Autobiography
3. 1987
   Won O. Henry Award
4. Notable work: Door Wide Open

Trivia

• •Place of birth: New York City
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: novelist, writer, autobiographer, diarist