Original sentence: Born Joyce Glassman to a Jewish family in New York City, she was raised in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, a few blocks from the apartment of Joan Vollmer Adams where William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac lived from 1944 to 1946.Ginsberg arranged for Glassman and Kerouac to meet on a blind date while she was working on her first novel, ‘’Come and Join the Dance’’, which was sold to Random House when she was 21 and was published five years later in 1962 just as she was starting her long career as a  book editor.She attended Barnard College at 16, failing her graduation by one class.She was married briefly to abstract painter James Johnson, who was killed in a motorcycle accident
Edited sentence: Born Joyce Glassman to a Jewish family in New York City, Joyce was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a few blocks from the apartment of  Joan Vollmer Adams where William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac lived from 1944 to 1946.Ginsberg arranged for Glassman and Kerouac to meet on a blind date while she was working on her first novel, Come and Join the Dance, which was sold to Random House when she was only twenty-one and appeared five years later in 1962 just as she was starting her long career as a  book editor.Joyce was married briefly to abstract painter James Johnson, who was killed in a motorcycle accident.She matriculated at Barnard College at 16, failing her graduation by one class