Minor Characters: A Young Woman's Coming-of-Age in the Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac

Blurb

Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir is a memoir by Joyce Johnson documenting her time and affair with Jack Kerouac providing a very intimate biography of sorts for the man, along with commentary on Allen Ginsberg, among others. The book also tells the story of women of the Beat generation, the "minor characters" of its title.