Nora Johnson
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Nora Johnson (January 31, 1933 – October 5, 2017)[1] was an American author.
Early life
Nora Johnson, daughter of filmmaker Nunnally Johnson and Marion Byrnes, was born in Hollywood, California in 1933.[2][1] She was educated at the Brearley School, Abbot Academy, and Smith College, from which she graduated in 1954.[3] Her sister was the film editor Marjorie Fowler.
Writings
Her first novel, Template:Ill, inspired by her experiences at the Brearley School, was published in 1956,[2] and was made into a motion picture starring Peter Sellers in 1964. Her influential article Sex and the College Girl, was published in the November 1957 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, discussing attitudes towards sex on American campuses.
Johnson's other works include A Step Beyond Innocence (Little, Brown, 1961); Loveletter in the Dead-Letter Office (Delacorte, 1966); Flashback: Nora Johnson on Nunnally Johnson (Doubleday, 1979); You Can Go Home Again: An Intimate Journey (Doubleday, 1982); The Two of Us (Simon & Schuster, 1984); Tender Offer (Simon & Schuster, 1985); Uncharted Places (Simon & Schuster, 1988); Perfect Together (E. P. Dutton, 1991).[4]
Death
Johnson died on October 5, 2017, in Dallas, Texas; cause of death was not specified.[1]
References
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- ↑ Boston University Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Center
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External links
- Official website
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- Sex and the College Girl online at The Atlantic
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- 1933 births
- 2017 deaths
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- American women novelists
- People from Hollywood, Los Angeles
- Smith College alumni
- Novelists from Los Angeles
- Brearley School alumni
- Novelists from New York (state)
- American women non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American women