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  1. Joan Haverty Kerouac (1931– May 15, 1990), born Joan Virginia Haverty, was the second wife of writer Jack Kerouac and the author of an autobiography, Nobody's Wife: The Smart Aleck and the King of the Beats.

  2. Aug 1, 2000 · Joan Haverty Kerouac was probably the most ill-treated woman Jack Kerouac ever abused. This book, however, does more than simply document her mistreatment, it also established the conditions under which one of the seminal novels of the 20th century, On The Road, was written.

    • Joan Haverty Kerouac
  3. Joan Haverty. Bio: Haverty was Kerouac’s second wife. She was a friend of Cannatra’s, who met Kerouac and married him weeks later. She had Kerouac’s daughter, Jan, but Kerouac refused for years to acknowledge the child. Aliases: On the Road – Laura; Luanne Henderson. Bio: Poor Luanne was integral to the story of On the Road.

  4. Joan Haverty Kerouac (1931– May 15, 1990), born Joan Virginia Haverty, was the second wife of writer Jack Kerouac and the author of an autobiography, Nobody's Wife: The Smart Aleck and the King of the Beats.

  5. Aug 1, 2000 · Strikingly beautiful twenty-year-old Joan Haverty had arrived in New York City and was working as a seamstress. During a deteriorating attempt to reconcile with her lover, fate intervened when joan heard a stranger's voice calling up to her loft from the street below-it was Jack Kerouac, needing the door unlocked so he could get to a party.

  6. Jun 8, 1996 · She had been working on "Parrot Fever," about the death of her mother, Joan Haverty, in 1991. She was Mr. Kerouac's second wife. Ms. Kerouac's parents were estranged when she was born.

  7. Buy Nobody's Wife: The Smart Aleck and the King of Beats by Kerouac, Joan, Kerouac, Harverty (ISBN: 9780887393686) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

    • Joan Kerouac, Harverty Kerouac
  8. It shows the fragile and insecure side of Kerouac, and interweaves details of Kerouac's life with the story of a young, smart and sensitive woman coming of age in the...

  9. Nobody's Wife: The Smart Aleck and the King of the Beats. Joan Harverty Kerouac. Creative Arts Book Company, $14.95 (223pp) ISBN 978-0-88739-368-6. Haverty Kerouac (who died in 1990) has...

  10. Nov 16, 2008 · The woman was Jan Kerouac, Jack Kerouac's daughter by Joan Haverty, the second wife of the Beat Generation icon. The couple divorced when Joan was pregnant with Jan. Jack denied the child...