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Joan Douglas Clemons died on September 9 after a brief illness. She was 88.
Joan was driven to tell stories and was passionate about doing so through writing. Her work included published short stories, journals and completed manuscripts.
She was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1932 to Estelle Fisher and Sidney Douglas Longbottom. A graduate of Smith College, she moved to New York City and began her professional life at Time Magazine, followed by McCall’s. She met her husband, Maynard G. Clemons, in the city and they were married in 1962. They left Greenwich Village for Sausalito, California and later Portland, Oregon, before returning to the East Coast.