![]() ![]() In that moment, “It's as though a longing I've carried inside myself has suddenly crystallized. Bright, sensitive, and obedient, Johnson is every parent’s dream daughter up to the age of eight, “the golden era of my career as a daughter.” As she progresses into adolescence under the shadow of the Cold War and a stuffy, out-of-touch government, Joyce begins to feel “the psychic hunger of my generation.” At thirteen, Johnson hears folk singers performing in Washington Square Park. Johnson grew up in Manhattan, the daughter of a well-to-do Jewish-American family. Minor Characters won a National Book Critics’ Circle Award. As well as portraying Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and other Beat legends, Johnson focuses on the role that women-the “minor characters” of the title-played in the social and artistic upheaval of the Beat generation. ![]() Minor Characters is a 1987 memoir by American novelist Joyce Johnson, narrating her childhood and early life up to the end of her relationship with novelist Jack Kerouac. ![]()
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