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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 ...
21 janv. 2021 · 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 ...
Pig-farmer Ralph Vollmer had first noticed his wife Joan was behaving strangely a few weeks before he decided to stage the violent four-day exorcism that led to her death. Joan had taken to lurching and dancing around outside, arms flailing about her head, swearing loudly at nobody in particular.
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 ?
25 avr. 2022 · I’ve only been able to find a handful of photos of Joan Vollmer on the internet, and in half of them she is dead. But Joan was once so vibrantly alive her “electricity seemed almost palpable,” as Joyce Johnson wrote. Joan sat right next to the men of the Beat Generation, co-creating its ideology.
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.
