women Items 1 - 10 of 15 Item: Image: Description: Price: Baby Driver: A Story about Me, by Jan Kerouac Just as Jack Kerouac captured the Beat Generation, his daughter captures the rhythm of the generation that followed. From an adolescence of LSD, detention homes, probation and a pregnancy at age 15 to peace in Haight Ashbury and Washington state and traveling by bus through Central America, this memoir moves with the force of a tropical storm. Paperback, 224 pages Submit a Review $ 13.95   How I Became Hettie Jones, by Hettie Jones   Hettie Cohen, born to a middle-class Jewish family in Queens, New York, chose to cross racial barriers and marry the controversial poet LeRoi Jones. The haven of Greenwich Village became their home in the late 1950s and early 1960s and was central to the spiritual, literary and racial movements that flourished and through which drifted the icons of this generation such as Jack Kerouac, Thelonious Monk and Allen Ginsberg. This is a moving and compelling story of dreams, heartbreak and growth. Paperback, 239 pages Submit a Review $ 14.00   Kerouac, A Biography, by Ann Charters The first of the Jack Kerouac biographies, Ann Charters was the only biographer to interview Jack Kerouac specifically for that purpose. Dozens of photographs and some terrific bibliographic charts and notes are included; one of which is a full chronology of the major events of Jack Kerouac's life. Paperback, 416 pages Submit a Review $ 15.95   Memoirs of a Beatnik, by Diane Di Prima A good book, mostly about Diane's sexual experiences. Paperback, 138 pages Submit a Review $ 15.00   Minor Characters, by Joyce Johnson Johnson chronicles her life with Jack Kerouac and "describes the roles that she and other women in her circle played as companions and acolytes to their male muses." An interesting and enjoyable read! Paperback, 262 pages Submit a Review $ 15   Recollections of My Life as a Woman, A Memoir, by Diane Di Prima Diane Di Prima's "evocative memoir traces the first three decades of her life and how she came to define herself as a woman. She chronicles the intense, creative cauldron of those years as the Beat movement emerged on both coasts and the country accelerated on into the sixties." Hardcover, 423 pages Submit a Review $ 18.00   Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics: A Study of the Fiction, by Regina Weinreich Includes new forward by Weinreich. New edition published in 2001. Paperback, 180 pages Submit a Review $ 12.95   Dinners and Nightmares, by Diane Di Prima Originally published in 1961, Dinners and Nightmares quickly garnered critical acclaim. It portrays, in one of the strongest voices of the 60s, the lifestyle that shattered the conservative myths of the 50s. This new addition of Dinners and Nightmares includes additional pieces from the same period. Paperback, 158 pages Submit a Review $ 14.95   Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957 - 1958, Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson In 1957 Allen Ginsberg introduced 35 year old Jack Kerouac to 21 year old Joyce Johnson (born Glassman). This meeting led to 22 months of romance, withdrawal and finally friendship. A tender and insightful look into the times and troubles of Kerouac's life. Paperback, 182 pages Submit a Review $ 13   Fast Speaking Woman - Chants and Essays, by Anne Waldman "Anne Waldman is one of the fastest, wisest women to run with the wolves in some time." -New York Times Review. Submit a Review $ 10.95   Items 1 - 10 of 15 Next 10 Items