Minor Characters
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Minor Characters is a memoir by Joyce Johnson documenting her time and affair with Jack Kerouac providing a very intimate biography of sorts for the man, along with commentary on Allen Ginsberg, among others. The book also tells the story of women of the Beat generation, the "Minor Characters" of its title.
The book won a National Book Critics Circle Award.