Nora Johnson reflects on the life and career of her father, filmmaker Nunnally Johnson.

Flashback: Nora Johnson on Nunnally Johnson

JOHNSON, Nora

DOUBLEDAY

You can go home again: An intimate journey

Identical twins Cassie and Celia Armstrong are reunited by the shocking divorce of their parents, in a modern tale of the complexities of marital, sexual, and parental relationships

Two of Us

Literature & Fiction

Signet

The Actor as Playwright in Early Modern Drama

Uncovering important links between acting and authorship in early modern England, Nora Johnson traces the careers of Robert Armin, Nathan Field, Anthony Munday and Thomas Heywood, actors strongly interested in marketing themselves as authors and celebrities. However, the authorship they imagined had little to do with modern ideas of control and ownership. Shakespeare's famous silence about his own work is one strategy among many available to writers for the stage. Johnson provides an alternative to the debate between traditional and materialist readers of dramatic authorship.

Dramas & Plays

Cambridge University Press

Uncovering important links between acting and authorship in early modern England, Nora Johnson traces the careers of Robert Armin, Nathan Field, Anthony Munday and Thomas Heywood, actors strongly interested in marketing themselves as authors and celebrities. However, the authorship they imagined had little to do with modern ideas of control and ownership. Shakespeare's famous silence about his own work is one strategy among many available to writers for the stage. Johnson provides an alternative to the debate between traditional and materialist readers of dramatic authorship.

Humor & Entertainment

Identical twins Cassie and Celia Armstrong are reunited by the shocking divorce of their parents, in a modern tale of the complexities of marital, sexual, and parental relationships

The Two of Us: A Novel

United States

Simon&Schuster

After a marriage "out of her class" subjects WASP princess Jamie Ricklehouse to a painful education in the realities of life, she is galvanized into action by the passage of her father's business into the hands of his second wife

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Amnesia victim Dinah arrives in New York and makes an improbable new life for herself, but revelations about her past enliven her life, and she experiences a series of madcap mishaps

Uncharted Places

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Contemporary

Nora Johnson was a young child when her parents' marriage collapsed. Her father, Nunnally Johnson, the writer, producer, or director of many acclaimed movies, such as The Grapes of Wrath and The Dirty Dozen, remained in California, where he would continue to be a major Hollywood presence for more than three decades. Nora's mother, Marion, a beautiful but unsettled woman, took her to New York to start a new life -- one surrounded by her mother's lovers and eccentric literary friends instead of movie stars and studio heads. 
 Coast to Coast is Nora's account of a childhood spent shuttling between Manhattan and Hollywood. What emerges is a marvelous portrait of American life in the 1940s and 1950s -- from the movie lots of California to the cocktail parties of the Upper East Side -- and also a touching story of a shrewd, observant girl who would grow up far too fast. Nora shares the colorful details of a childhood spent in privilege, but also captures the painful loneliness of changing schools, four-day train trips from one coast to the other, and never being quite sure of where she belonged. She also brings to life her droll, charming, talented father -- a Thurberesque character in Hollywood -- and her beautiful and erratic mother, a woman who fled the Los Angeles movie colony life but was unable to forget the husband who took her there. 
 Coast to Coast is a wonderfully written portrait of a fascinating era and a child who came of age in it, who had everything she wanted -- except a place to call home.

Coast to Coast: A Family Romance

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Books by JOHNSON, Nora

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Flashback: Nora Johnson on Nunnally Johnson

You can go home again: An intimate journey

Two of Us

The Actor as Playwright in Early Modern Drama

The Actor as Playwright in Early Modern Drama

The Two of Us: A Novel

TENDER OFFER

Uncharted Places

Tender Offer

Coast to Coast: A Family Romance