Joan Rivers television critic Jack Gould called Rivers "quite possibly the most intuitively funny woman alive". In 2017, "Rolling Stone" magazine ranked her sixth on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time, and in October the same year, she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. Joan Alexandra Molinsky was born on June 8, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian Jewish immigrants Beatrice (née Grushman) and Meyer C. Molinsky. She had an elder sister named Barbara Waxler. Rivers spent her early life in Prospect Heights and Crown Heights in Brooklyn, where she attended the progressive
Joan Eadington Jonny Briggs?", published in 1979 in the journal "Books for Young Children". Eadington has also written fiction for adults under the pen-name Joan Eadith; novels include "Dasia" and "Ivy Violet" (1994). Joan Eadington Joan Eadington (born 1926) is an author from the United Kingdom best known for her books for children. Eadington lived in Middlesbrough and several of her books are set there. Eadington has written a number of books for children from the 1970s onwards. She is best known, however, for a series of books centred on the character Jonny Briggs, later adapted into a BBC television series. The