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Joan Acocella

  • Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

    • Joan Acocella,
    • "A Few Too Many," in The New Yorker ()

Joan Acocella, U.S. journalist, book and dance critic

(1945)

Full name: Joan B. Ross Acocella.