How I Became Hettie Jones
Hettie Jones. Penguin Books, $8.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-14-015388-0
Glimpses of Allen Ginsberg, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday and Jack Kerouac dot this memoir of a Jew from Queens, N.Y., who met and married controversial black poet LeRoi Jones while living in late-1950s Greenwich Village bohemia. PW called this a ``restrained autobiographical mix of introspection and gossip.'' (July)
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Reviewed on: 07/01/1991
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 239 pages - 978-0-525-24840-8
MP3 CD - 978-1-5226-6433-8
Open Ebook - 978-1-322-35812-3
Paperback - 256 pages - 978-0-8021-3496-7
