Nora Johnson

Nora Johnson is an American novelist. The daughter of filmmaker Nunnally Johnson and Marion Byrnes, Johnson was born in Hollywood, California in 1933 and educated at the Brearley School, Abbot Academy, and Smith College, from which she graduated in 1954. Her first novel, The World of Henry Orient (1958), was inspired by her experiences at the Brearley School 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 novels You Can Go Home Again: An Intimate Journey (1982) and The Two of Us (1984) were included on The New York Times Best Books of the Year lists, and her short story The Jungle of Injustice won an O’Henry Award in 1981.