"Ordinary Stupid People: Joan Vollmer's Life Before the Beats Began" (2024)

Germany: Moloko Print (book, biography), 2024.
7.375" x 5.5" x 0.25", ~80 pages, ISBN 978-3-910431-33-1.

Ordinary Stupid People: Joan Vollmer's Life Before the Beats Began by Cathy Marshall and Simon Johnson, as published by Moloko Print (Germany) in 2024.

A slim book on the life of Joan Vollmer, former wife to William S. Burroughs. Not a book about Burroughs, although there, of course, are multiple mentions of Burroughs. 

This is an early work to precede a full biography on Joan Vollmer.

An early copy was acquired from Ben Schot of Sea Urchin (Rotterdam, Netherlands), and gifted to David J. Haskins. The copy currently in the archive was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg (Massachusetts, US).

Contents: 

• Introduction
• "Ordinary Stupid People"
• Images
• Acknowledgments