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Joan Vollmer was a Beat Generation figure who was the common-law wife of William S. Burroughs. She died in 1951 after Burroughs accidentally shot her in Mexico City while playing William Tell.
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Joan Vollmer was born on Feb. 4, 1923, in Loudonville, New York. In the early 1940s, she moved to New York City to attend Barnard College where she quickly fell in with the Beats. The Beats evolved in the years following World War II, when the younger generation reflected on their nation’s politics and developed creative ways to express themselves....
Vollmer’s loyalty to her friends was unwavering, even when, in 1944, Kerouac and Burroughs were arrestedas material witnesses to a murder. Both the victim and the killer were friends of the Beats and well-known to Vollmer, but she stuck with the group. Edie Parker went one step further, marrying Kerouac so that her parents could help him post bail....
On Sept. 6, 1951, Joan Vollmer and her fugitive husband played a game that would take her life. According to police records, Burroughs told authorities that he had wanted to show off his new pistol and marksmanship at a party with friends. He had Vollmer place a gin glass on her head in a game called William Tell, during which the shooter typically...
Joan Vollmer was a patron and lover of the Beat writers, who hosted them in her New York apartment and influenced their art. She died in 1951 when her husband William S. Burroughs accidentally shot her in the head during a drunken game in Mexico City.
Souvent laissée de côté dans l'histoire des premiers temps de la Beat Generation, Joan Vollmer (qui devint plus tard M me Burroughs) fut sans équivoque présente dès le tout début de l'aventure. Elle est décrite comme une femme intelligente et intéressante, mais qui ne s'impliqua pas dans l'écriture. Par ailleurs, à l ...
25 avr. 2022 · A personal essay by Katie Bennett on her research and recovery of Joan Vollmer, the wife of William Burroughs and a co-creator of the Beat Generation. She explores Joan's life, death, and legacy, and how it relates to her own experience of assault and isolation.
- Katie Bennett
Le 6 septembre 1951, Joan Vollmer, figure tutélaire de la Beat Generation et femme de William Burroughs, trouve la mort dans des circonstances troubles, au cours d’un jeu stupide. Burroughs n’a jamais nié être l’auteur du coup de feu qui lui a ôté la vie, mais que s’est-il passé dans la foulée du drame ?
8 sept. 2009 · Learn about Joan Vollmer, the Beat poet William Burroughs' wife and muse, who died in a tragic accident in 1951. Read essays by James Grauerholz and Jed Birmingham on her role in the Beat movement and Burroughs' life.
Joan Vollmer was a prominent female member of the early Beat Generation circle, the roommate of Edie Parker and the common-law wife of William S. Burroughs. She was killed by Burroughs in a drunken accident in 1951, and is remembered in his novel Kentucky Ham and by Ginsberg.
