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Mar 25, 2003 · Joan London: I started to collect books, photographs, music, which I felt were somehow to do with the time, the place, the atmosphere of this vaguely apprehended mass I called Gilgamesh. I kept on reading, about the Second World War, about the Orient Express, about Group Settlement in Western Australia , about the Depression etc.
About Joan London (American writer) Joan London (January 15, 1901 – January 18, 1971) was a writer and the older of two daughters born to Jack London and his first wife, Elizabeth "Bess" Maddern London.
Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading CBE (/ ˈ ɑːr m ə ˌ t r eɪ d ɪ ŋ /, born 9 December 1950) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. Her first major commercial success came with her third and fourth albums, Joan Armatrading (1976) and Show Some Emotion (1977), and she continues to play live and record studio albums.
Jane Warton was the daughter of Thomas (1688–1745) and Elizabeth (1691–1762) Warton. She was baptized in 1724 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, where her father was vicar and master of the grammar school. She was one of three children: she had an elder brother, Joseph (1722–1800), and a younger, Thomas (1728–1790).
Joan Schenkar. Joan Schenkar (15 August 1942 - 5 May 2021) was an American playwright and writer. She is known for her biographies of writer Patricia Highsmith, and Dorothy Wilde, as well as for the production of several of her plays in New York in the 1980s, including Signs of Life, Cabin Fever, and The Last of Hitler .
Joan Louise Patterson (1953–1980), Liz Rosenberg (1980–1982) Partner. Susan Thornton. John Champlin Gardner Jr. (July 21, 1933 – September 14, 1982) was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and university professor. He is best known for his 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.
William Seward Burroughs II ( / ˈbʌroʊz /; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature. [2] [3] [4] Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of ...
