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Feb 04, 1923 New York, United States Died on 06 Sep 1951 (aged 28)
Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs
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About Joan Vollmer
- Joan Vollmer (February 4, 1923 – September 6, 1951) was the most prominent female member of the early Beat Generation circle.
- While a student at Barnard College, she became the roommate of Edie Parker (later married to Jack Kerouac).
- Their apartment became a gathering place for the Beats during the 1940s, where Vollmer was often at the center of marathon, all night discussions.
- In 1946, she began a relationship with William S.
- Burroughs, later becoming his common-law wife.
- In 1951, Burroughs killed Vollmer in what he first admitted to and shortly thereafter denied as a drunken attempt at playing William Tell.
