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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 ).
Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs (* 4. Februar 1923 in Loudonville, New York; † 6. September 1951 in Mexiko-Stadt) war eine der Gründungsfiguren der Beat Generation. Die US-Amerikanerin war die Muse und Ehefrau von William S. Burroughs.
21. Jan. 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.
6. Sept. 2012 · September 1951 erschoss der Schriftsteller William S. Burroughs seine Frau Joan Vollmer - beim Wilhelm-Tell-Spielen. Als Literatur wäre es wohl lausig erfunden, es war aber schreckliche Wirklichkeit.
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25. Apr. 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.
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If popular culture remembers that wife, Joan Vollmer, it mostly remembers her for the manner of her death: shot, they say, as a result of Burroughs’ drunken imitation of William Tell.
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.
