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Joan Vollmer (February 4, 1923 – September 6, 1951) was an influential participant in the early Beat Generation circle. While a student at Barnard College, she became the roommate of Edie Parker (later married to Jack Kerouac).
21 janv. 2021 · Joan Vollmer was a patron and lover of the Beat writers, who hosted them in her New York apartment and influenced their art. She died in 1951 when her husband William S. Burroughs accidentally shot her in the head during a drunken game in Mexico City.
Pig-farmer Ralph Vollmer had first noticed his wife Joan was behaving strangely a few weeks before he decided to stage the violent four-day exorcism that led to her death. Joan had taken to lurching and dancing around outside, arms flailing about her head, swearing loudly at nobody in particular.
25 avr. 2022 · After William Burroughs killed his wife Joan Vollmer, he threw away all her possessions. Their son, Bill Jr., never saw a photograph of her. When Bill Jr. was 32, he begged his father to send him a photo but he didn’t.
If popular culture remembers that wife, Joan Vollmer, it mostly remembers her for the manner of her death: shot, they say, as a result of Burroughs’ drunken imitation of William Tell.
Souvent laissée de côté dans l'histoire des premiers temps de la Beat Generation, Joan Vollmer (qui devint plus tard M me Burroughs) fut sans équivoque présente dès le tout début de l'aventure.
Joan Vollmer was a prominent female member of the early Beat Generation circle, the roommate of Edie Parker and the common-law wife of William S. Burroughs. She was killed by Burroughs in a drunken accident in 1951, and is remembered in his novel Kentucky Ham and by Ginsberg.
