Honey
December, 1976
Honeyfrom the new bookHers was never an easy life. The lady the world has come to know as Honey Bruce--beautiful stripper, ex-junkie, wife of Lenny Bruce, the comie some called sick, others called martyr--was born Harriett Jolliff in a rural area of Arkansas in 1927. When Harriett was still a toddler, her father deserted her mother. At 17, she herself ran away--to Florida, where she was arrested when the boys she was with ripped off a service station for pocket money. That was the beginning of a...