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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.
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 ).
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.
25. Apr. 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.
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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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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.
