Charles Webb (author)
| Charles Webb | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 9, 1939 San Francisco, California, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | Literature |
| Notable works | The Graduate |
| Partner | Eve Webb |
| Children | 2 |
Charles Richard Webb (born June 9, 1939) is the author of several novels, mainly known for his most famous work, The Graduate (1963), which was made into a film of the same name (1967).
Webb was born in San Francisco, California. He grew up in affluent Pasadena, CA. He attended Chandler School, Midland School in Los Olivos, California and graduated from Williams College in 1961. He declined an inheritance from his father, a wealthy doctor.
Webb lived for several years in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
As of 2006, Webb had been with his long-term partner Eve for more than 40 years. Eve shaves her head and calls herself "Fred" in solidarity with a Californian support group called Fred, for men who have low self-esteem. Fred is an artist and her work includes illustrations for Webb's 2002 novel New Cardiff. The couple has two sons, of which one is now a performance artist who once cooked and ate a copy of The Graduate with cranberry sauce.
The Webbs removed their children from school so that they could tutor them at home. This was an illegal act in California at the time, and to evade the authorities they fled the state; at one point they managed a nudist camp in New Jersey. They also divorced - accounts vary as to why (it was not due to personal differences), either in protest against the institution of marriage, or against the US's lack of marriage rights for gays. They sold their wedding presents back to their guests, and having given away four houses in succession, lived on the breadline, taking menial jobs as cleaners, cooks and fruit-pickers, working at K-Mart and living in a shack. They currently live in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England.
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