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Joyce Johnson

Joyce Johnson’s Minor Characters, a memoir about coming of age in the 1950s and the Beats, won a 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award. The most recent of her eight books is The Voice Is All, a biography of Jack Kerouac.

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