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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 ).
Jan 21, 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.
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.
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Apr 25, 2022 · By Katie Bennett. April 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. Allen Ginsberg tried to show him a photo of her dead face, though. Several times.
- Katie Bennett
Sep 8, 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’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.
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Nov 5, 2007 · He was, famously, the son of a drug-addicted father and a mother, Joan Vollmer, who drank like a fish and swallowed benzedrine throughout her pregnancy. She would later be killed during a...
