Joyce Johnson (1935–) (Born Joyce Glassman) American novelist, autobiographer, and nonfiction writer. Johnson was Jack Kerouac’s lover during the period when he wrote On the Road, and in her memoir Minor Characters (1983) she recounts her...

Joyce Johnson (b. 1935) is an American author of fiction and nonfiction who won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir Minor Characters about her relationship with Jack Kerouac. Born Joyce Glassman to a Jewish family in Queens, New York,...

DYLAN THOMAS: A New Life By Andrew Lycett. Overlook. 434 pp. $35 In 1933, a prodigiously gifted teenage poet left the provincial Welsh town of Swansea and came up to London to brave the treacherous waters of the literary world. The older, aristocratic...

Johnson, Joyce M. (Nee Buske) Of Manitowish Waters, formerly of Pewaukee. Born to Eternal Life Monday, November 14, 2005, at the age of 79 years. Beloved wife and best friend of Charles for 57 years. Loving mother of Charles J. "Skeeter" (Cathy) Johnson...

Hey Jack, how bout a mojito? Famous Jack Kerouac, Dizzy Gillespie, and Joe College hangout the West End Café has officially reopened for business--"about five minutes ago," a publicist told The Observer late Thursday afternoon. Albeit with a slightly altered moniker: Havana Central at the...

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama brought his Democratic presidential campaign to Oklahoma for the first time Monday with a promise to end the war in Iraq and change the culture of political gamesmanship in Washington."We've got a war that should have never been authorized and should...