Joan Hunter Dunn the engagement is sheer fantasy, but my life was very like the poem." She married Harold Wycliffe Jackson, a civil servant in the Ministry of Information, in January 1945, at St Mark's Church in Farnborough. Betjeman was invited, but was unable to attend. The poem was republished in Betjeman's book "New Bats in Old Belfries" in 1945, and was later mentioned in Flanders and Swann's "Tried by Centre Court". Joan Jackson accompanied her husband to Malaya after the war, where he ran a radio station. They then lived in Singapore, before returning to the UK in 1957. Harold worked for
Katherine Dunn Information with an Attitude" (1989), which contains her collected newspaper columns from the Portland weekly newspaper "Willamette Week"; "3 Day Fox: A Tattoo", a poem; and numerous articles for "Playboy", "Vogue", and the "L.A. Times". Katherine Dunn Katherine Karen Dunn (October 24, 1945 – May 11, 2016) was an American best-selling novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. She is best known for the novel "Geek Love" (1989). She was also a prolific writer on boxing. Dunn was born in Garden City, Kansas, in 1945. She was the second-youngest of five siblings; her father