Jill Johnston

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Jill Johnston (born May 17, 1929 in London , † September 18, 2010 ) was an American author , journalist and LGBT activist.

Life

As a child, Johnston attended various schools in Massachusetts and Minnesota . She studied at the University of North Carolina and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts. After graduating, she worked as an author and wrote several books. She also worked for many years as a journalist for The Village Voice magazine. Johnston wrote under the pen name FJ Crowe , among others . Johnston was a feminist and LGBT activist.

Johnston married Richard John Lanham, from whom they divorced in 1964. The couple had two children. In 1993 Johnston married Ingrid Nyboe in Denmark . The couple remarried in 2009 in Connecticut , United States.

Works (selection)

  • 1971: Marmalade Me. EP Dutton, New York 1971. Introduction Gregory Battcock - New edition expanded by eighteen articles: Wesleylan UP / University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 1998, ISBN 978-0-8195-6314-9 .
  • 1973: Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution. Simon and Schuster, New York 1973, ISBN 978-0-671-21433-3 .
    • German: Lesbian nation: the feminist solution. 2nd Edition. Amazonen-Frauenverlag, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-88171-001-9 . (Translated from the American by Irmtraut Rüber. German: Nationality lesbian. 1976).
  • 1974: Gullibles Travels. Links Books, New York 1974, ISBN 978-0-8256-3036-1 .
  • 1983: Mother Bound; Autobiography in Search of a Father Knopf, New York 1983, ISBN 978-0-394-52757-4 .
  • 1985: Paper Daughter. Knopf, New York 1985, ISBN 978-0-394-53939-3 .
  • 1994: Dada and Fluxus. In: Susan Hapgood: Neo-Dada: Redefining Art, 1958–1962. American Federation of Arts, New York 1994, ISBN 978-0-87663-629-9 .
  • 1994: Secret Lives in Art: Essays on Art, Literature, Performance. acapella / Chicago Review Press, Chicago, Illinois 1994, ISBN 978-1-55652-233-8 .
  • 1996: Jasper Johns  : Privileged Information. Thames and Hudson, New York, NY 1996, ISBN 978-0-500-01736-4 .
  • 1998: Admission Accomplished: The Lesbian Nation Years, 1970–75. Serpent's Tail, London 1998, ISBN 978-1-85242-450-3 .
  • 2005: The Jill Hohnston literary Archive: from 1955 – Current. Print Means Inc., New York, NY 2005.
  • 2008: Niki de Saint-Phalle and the Tarot Garden. Benteli, Wabern-Bern 2008, ISBN 3-7165-1400-4 .
  • 2008: England's Child: The Carillon and the Casting of Big Bells. Cadmus Editions, Tiburon Belvedere, Calif. 2008, ISBN 978-0-932274-71-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carol Hurd Green: American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present. The Gale Group, 2000, p. 235
personal data
SURNAME Johnston, Jill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crowe, FJ (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 2010
Place of death United States