How I Became Herrie Jones

Klappentext Hettie Jones presents an intimate memoir of her life--from her middle-class Jewish family in Queens to her marriage to the controversial black poet LeRoi Jones and her search for her own artistic voice. Infused with the passion of the late 1950s and early 1960s, this memoir is a deeply moving look at the spirit of the artist and the birth of an era. Zusammenfassung Greenwich Village in the 1950s was a haven to which young poets! painters! and jazz musicians flocked. Among them was Hettie Cohen! who'd been born into a middle-class Jewish family in Queens and who'd chosen to cross racial barriers to marry the controversial black poet LeRoi Jones. Theirs was a bohemian life in the awakening East Village of underground publishing and jazz lofts! through which drifted such icons of the generation as Allen Ginsberg! Thelonious Monk! Jack Kerouac! Frank O'Hara! Billie Holiday! James Baldwin! and Franz Kline.

Product details

• Authors: Hettie Jones, Jones Hettie
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.08.2000
• EAN: 9780802134967
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3496-7
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; New York City, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, Relating to African American people, Biography and non-fiction prose, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, TOPICAL / Women's Interest, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form