Occupation Novelist Subject Attitudes towards sex Uncles Cecil Patrick Johnson Genre Comedy Movies The World of Henry Orient | Alma mater Smith College Role Author Nationality American Name Nora Johnson | |
Notable works The World of Henry Orient Parents Marion Byrnes, Nunnally Johnson Grandparents Johnny Pearl Johnson, James Nunnally Johnson Books The De Clerambault Code, The World of Henry Orient, Coast to Coast: A Family R, Tender Offer, The actor as playwrigh Similar People Nunnally Johnson, Jerome Hellman, George Roy Hill, Dorris Bowdon | ||
American author Nora Johnson Died at 84
Nora Johnson (born 1933) is an American author.
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Early life
Nora Johnson, daughter of filmmaker Nunnally Johnson and Marion Byrnes, was born in Hollywood, California in 1933. She was educated at the Brearley School, Abbot Academy, and Smith College, from which she graduated in 1954. Her sister was the film editor Marjorie Fowler.
Writings
Her first novel, The World of Henry Orient, 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, was published in the November 1957 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, discussing attitudes towards sex on American campuses.
Johnson's other works include A Step Beyond Innocence (Little, Brown, 1961); Loveletter in the Dead-Letter Office (Delacorte, 1966); 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).