# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-haverty-kerouac
# Generated: 2026-09-02T21:00:58.260Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-haverty-kerouac"
name: "Joan Haverty Kerouac"
slug: "joan-haverty-kerouac"
description: "Joan Haverty Kerouac, born Joan Virginia Haverty, was the second wife of writer Jack Kerouac and the author of an autobiography, Nobody's Wife: The Smart Aleck and the King of the Beats. Joan Kerouac's autobiography, which existed only in manuscript form when she died, appeared in book form in 2000 after the Kerouacs' only child, Jan Kerouac, her half-brother, David, and David's brother-in-law John Bowers helped prepare it for publication."
tagline: "American author (1931–1990)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931"
deathDate: "1990"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.75
  momentum:             4.045058883768561
  historical:           2.498748
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  51
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Kerouac"
    title: "Joan Kerouac"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Haverty_Kerouac"
    title: "Joan Haverty Kerouac"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1690754"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations