She turned down Vassar and chose instead to study at Mary Washington, an all-girls college in Virginia. Let me backtrack-born Hettie Cohen in 1934, in Brooklyn, New York, Hettie was of Jewish descent. Through Hettie’s life we view the Beat scene. They were into jazz, wrote poetry and strove to get their writings published and known. Together, they partied, smoked grass, took drugs and exchanged views and partners. She writes of her life, on the periphery of their lives. She rubbed shoulders with many of the Beat Generation living here, those mentioned above and many more. The autobiographical piece here is about Hettie’s younger years in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, living in Manhattan-Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Cooper Square on the Lower East Side. Having recently enjoyed the writing of Joyce Johnson, next up to try was this- How I Became Hettie Jones by Hettie Jones. Well, what about the women of the group?! I wanted to check them out too. Everybody knows of the male poets and authors of the Beat Generation, those such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Joel Oppenheimer, Frank O'Hara and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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