Joyce Sherman was born on October 20, 1941[1] in Brooklyn, New York, into a family of Jewish emigrants who came from Russia in 1914.
She told Le Monde in 1990, "You've seen Radio Days, by Woody Allen, it was exactly that!
The street that overlooks the sea, the neighbors, the school, the parents, the football, the baseball, all that was my life!
"[2] Her father, a Menshevik, fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.
The couple lived in Madrid and Mexico City, before moving to Paris in the early 1960s.