Joan Kerouac
Joan Kerouac (* 1931 as Joan Haverty ; † 1990 ) was an American author and the second wife of the writer Jack Kerouac .
Joan Haverty married Jack Kerouac just two weeks after they met. Jack encouraged Joan to write and at the beginning of his book The Dharma Bums mentioned the natural beat of her writing. The marriage was short-lived; Joan broke up with Jack after he argued that she should have the unplanned child she was expecting from him. Jack Kerouac only met his daughter Jan after her tenth birthday. Joan Kerouac remarried and had twins. In 1982 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. At this time she began writing her memoir, which she called Nobody's Wife . When she died in 1990, her children found the unfinished manuscript fragments and published them.
Works
- Nobody's Wife: The Smart Aleck and the King of the Beats , with an introduction by Jan Kerouac, 2000, ISBN 0887393683
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| SURNAME | Kerouac, Joan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haverty, Joan (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author and the second wife of Jack Kerouac |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1931 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1990 |