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Joan Vollmer (February 4, 1923 – September 6, 1951) was an influential participant in the early Beat Generation circle. While a student at Barnard College, she became the roommate of Edie Parker (later married to Jack Kerouac). Their apartment became a gathering place for the Beats during the 1940s, where Vollmer was often at the center of ...
Jan 21, 2021 · Joan Vollmer opened her New York City home to the raucous Beats — and was ultimately shot in the head by one of the movement’s most influential writers, her common-law husband William S. Burroughs.
The Victorian woman who died after a four-day exorcism Joan Vollmer lived in a small rural community in Victoria when her personality started to change. Then, she was exorcised.
Apr 25, 2022 · After William Burroughs killed his wife Joan Vollmer, he threw away all her possessions. Their son, Bill Jr., never saw a photograph of her. When Bill Jr. was 32, he begged his father to send him a photo but he didn’t.
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Apr 22, 2024 · Joan Vollmer was a brilliant poet, inspired Ginsberg to write "Howl," and was heavily addicted to Benzedrine. When Joan fled to Mexico City with her husband, who had to leave the U.S. or face jail time for heroin possession, she couldn't find her favorite drug. As Joan went through speed withdrawal, she turned increasingly to alcohol.
Sep 8, 2009 · Joan’s role in the early days of the Beats cannot, in any way, be overstated – it was her apartment where Allen first met Kerouac, and her wit and intelligence easily matched those around her, (as both Herbert Huncke and Allen himself would later recall).
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If popular culture remembers that wife, Joan Vollmer, it mostly remembers her for the manner of her death: shot, they say, as a result of Burroughs’ drunken imitation of William Tell.
