Nora Johnson (January 31, 1933 – October 5, 2017) was an American author.
Early life Nora Johnson, daughter of filmmaker Nunnally Johnson and Marion Byrnes, was born in Hollywood, California in 1933.Abrahams, William (1982) Prize Stories 1982: The O. Henry Awards, Doubleday, p. 99
...living in New York with her mother but spending considerable time with her father and stepmother in Hollywood...
She was educated at the Brearley School, Abbot Academy, and Smith College, from which she graduated in 1954.Author's official site Her half-sister was the film editor Marjorie Fowler.
Writings Her first novel, , inspired by her experiences at the Brearley School, was published in 1956, and was made into a motion picture starring Peter Sellers in 1964. Her influential article Sex and the College Girl,Sex and the College Girl at The Atlantic was published in the November 1959 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, discussing attitudes towards sex on American campuses.
Johnson's other worksHoward Gottlieb Archival Research Center Boston University include: A Step Beyond Innocence (Little, Brown, 1961) Loveletter in the Dead-Letter Office (Delacorte, 1966) Pat Loud: A Woman's Story (Bantam, 1974), Pat Loud, 1926-2021, and Nora Johnson, joint authors Flashback: Nora Johnson on Nunnally Johnson (Doubleday, 1979) You Can Go Home Again: An Intimate Journey (Doubleday, 1982) The Two of Us (Simon & Schuster, 1984) Tender Offer (Simon & Schuster, 1985) Uncharted Places (Simon & Schuster, 1988) Perfect Together (E. P. Dutton, 1991). Coast to Coast: A Family Romance (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
Death Johnson died on October 5, 2017, in Dallas, Texas; cause of death was not specified.
References
External links Official website