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Jill Johnston (May 17, 1929 – September 18, 2010) was an American feminist author and cultural critic who wrote ''Lesbian Nation'' in 1973 and was a longtime writer for ''The Village Voice''. She was also a leader of the lesbian separatist movement of the 1970s.〔William Grimes (Obituary: Jill Johnston, ) ''New York Times'', 21 September 2010〕 Johnston also wrote under the pen name F. J. Crowe.〔Carol Hurd Green, ''American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present'', The Gale Group, 2000, page 235〕 ==Biography== Born as Jill Crowe in London, England in 1929, the only child of Olive Marjorie Crowe (born 1901), an American nurse, and Cyril F. Johnston (1884-1950),〔 a British bellfounder and clockmaker whose family firm, Gillett & Johnston, created the carillon of Riverside Church in New York City.()〔〔Jill Johnston, ''Mother Bound: Autobiography in Search of a Father'', Alfred A. Knopf, 1983〕〔The birth name of Jill Crowe is given on the 16 October 1929 passenger manifest of the Homeric, accessed on ancestry.com. The manifest states that Jill Crowe was travelling with her mother, Olive Crowe, a nurse.〕 Her parents, who never married, separated when their daughter was an infant, and Johnston's mother took her to Little Neck, Long Island, New York, where she was raised.() After attending college in Massachusetts and Minnesota, Johnston received an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 1958 Johnston married Richard John Lanham, whom she divorced in 1964. They had two children, a son, Richard Renault Lanham, and a daughter, Winifred Brooke Lanham.()〔Frances C. Locher and Ann Evory, ''Contemporary Authors'', Volumes 53-56, The Gale Group, 1975, page 320〕 In 1993, in Denmark, she married Ingrid Nyeboe. The couple married again, in Connecticut, in 2009.() 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jill Johnston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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