num_pages: 277
description: A novelist recalls life among the writers in the beat generation, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, LeRoi Jones, and Gregory Corso, and the talented and tragic women who made up their circle
language: English
title: Minor Characters
titlecomplete: Minor Characters
characters: Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac
genres: New York, Biography, Womens, Poetry, Literature, Feminism, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 2422
places: New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Washington Square Press