Word: martinson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...round to exploiting this painful, ludicrous episode for a scene in my novel When She Was Good." But it was while teaching at the University of Chicago that Roth ran into the elemental force that would permanently shape him as a man and a writer. Her name was Margaret Martinson, although she is called Josie here, and the disaster of their stormy love affair was capped by the calamity of their marriage. She later confessed, Roth claims, to having hoodwinked him by obtaining a urine sample from a pregnant black woman and submitting it to a doctor. Roth writes...
Where next? Well, say he took an M.A. at the University of Chicago and decided to go on for the Ph.D. He met and married Margaret Martinson, the mother of two children by a previous marriage. When his first attempts at short stories were routinely rejected, Roth gave up his literary aspirations and buckled down to his academic career. He earned his doctorate and went on to teaching positions at the University of Iowa and Princeton. The Roths live in suburban Philadelphia, where he is a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His critical books include The Jewish...
...Martinson switched playing hands before the Harvard game to take to the field one last time before a series of operations. His thumb joint is still virtually immobile...
...tomorrow's impending in the Stadium, Martinson says "We are just going to play the best game we can. Win or lose, I won't leave any regrets. Everybody prepares differently. I like to stay loose and listen to music before a game...
...there life after football Martinson thinks...