Burns, Joan Simpson

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Author and editor Joan Simpson Burns worked at Partisan Review, Readers' Subscription Book Club, CBS/Columbia Records and Harcourt Brace in New York City. She is the author of The Awkward Embrace: The Creative Artist and the Institution in America (1975) and editor of The Dechronization of Sam Magruder, a novel by her father George Gaylord Simpson (1996). She has lived in Williamstown, Mass., since 1969 when she married historian James MacGregor Burns; both had children from previous marriages.

From the description of Papers, 1966-1981 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122421777

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  • Authors, American
  • Women authors, American
  • Editors
  • Parent and child
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  • United States (as recorded)
  • Williamstown (Mass.) (as recorded)

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