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Joan Vollmer (February 4, 1923 – September 6, 1951) [2] 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 ).
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.
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.
- Katie Bennett
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).
Joan Vollmer’s Death, by R J Ellis (Visiting Professor, University of Chichester) The way in which Joan Vollmer died in September 1951 has been the subject of much investigation and speculation, a lot of it contradicting other accounts.
Feb 5, 2022 · In 1944, Burroughs moved in with Joan Vollmer in an apartment they shared with Kerouac and his first wife. A friend of Burroughs from St Louis, Lucien Carr, killed another man who, Carr...
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Brutally killed at the hands of her husband and an extreme religious group 23-years ago, Joan Vollmer’s infamous exorcism has left a lasting impact on the regional Victorian town of Antwerp.
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