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'the graduate' by charles richard webb amazon

charles webb wrote the novel 'the graduate' shortly after graduating williams college in 1961

'Benjamin Braddock, disenchanted after his time at university, was based on himself; Elaine Robinson on his real-life partner, a woman named Fred; and Mrs Robinson was based on a doctor's wife who visited his father's house to play bridge.'

- the gaurdian march 26 2005

- the graduate

the list april 12th 20011

'Charles completed The Graduate in his final year of college while studying in Massachusetts, and it was published in 1963.'

'In a bid to relieve himself from the “burden” of money the author refused his inheritance from his father, and gave away his home in Massachusetts to a bird charity.'

- amp news

'Her name, meanwhile, came from a classmate in college whom Webb hardly knew. In adulthood, he met up with the classmate again, and learnt that the boy's mother had been going around for years proudly claiming - with some justification - to be the real Mrs Robinson.

Both Webb and Benjamin were brought up in the well-heeled environs of Pasadena where Webb's father, Richard, was a heart specialist. Did he have a reasonably good relationship with his father?'

- the independent

alchetron

'Since the couple pulled up stakes in Southern California and arrived in Massachusetts last July with their mutt, Mrs. R. (named, of course, for the story’s Mrs. Robinson), and a few thousand dollars in savings, the fates have not been kind to the Webbs. First, they had hoped to settle in Williamstown, home of Charles’s alma mater, Williams College, where he planned to begin writing a sequel to The Graduate. Unable to find a place they could afford, they were taken in by a woman in Bethel, Conn., who read of their plight in a newspaper—but threw them out after learning of their fondness for nudity.'

'The couple’s habit of impulsive philanthropy would soon be entrenched. Their second son, David, was born in 1967 in Laguna Beach, Calif., where they were living at Webb’s parents’ house. Three years later they purchased a $65,000 home in Williamstown, but, after a few weeks, decided to give that one away too, to the Audubon Society. '

- people magazine 1988

- the telegraph u k april 2000

these people below apparently aren't the author charles richard webb's family

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shelboune falls farm farm in vermont is a bird sanctuary

the vanderbilt / webb family owned shelbourne farms in vermont

bill cosby lived in shelbourne falls massachusetts

the webb/ vanderbilts owned shelbourne farms in vermont by lake champlain

dr charles richard webb jr was president of easter connecticut state university and may have been charles webb's dad