Joyce Johnson (author)

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Joyce Johnson
Johnson at the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival
Born	Joyce Glassman 1935 (age 88–89) New York City, United States
Occupation	Author
Notable works	Minor Characters

Joyce Johnson is an American author of fiction and nonfiction. She was born Joyce Glassman in 1935 to a Jewish family in New York City^[1] and raised in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, a few blocks from the apartment of Joan Vollmer Adams where William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac lived from 1944 to 1946. She was a child actress and appeared in the Broadway production of I Remember Mama, which she writes about in her 2004 memoir Missing Men.