How I Became Hettie Jones

by Hettie Jones

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Greenwich Village in the 1950s was a haven to which young poets, painters, and jazz musicians flocked. Among them was Hettie Cohen, who'd been born in a Jewish middle-class family in Queens and who'd chosen to cross racial barriers to marry the controversial black poet LeRoi Jones. Theirs was a bohemian life in the awakening East Village of underground publishing and jazz lofts, through which drifted such icons of the generation as Allen Ginsberg, Thelonious Monk, Jack Kerouac, Frank O'Hara, Billie Holiday, James Baldwin, and Franz Kline.
  • ISBN10 0802134963
  • ISBN13 9780802134967
  • Publish Date 6 December 1996
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Avalon Travel Publishing
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 239
  • Language English