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 1981, Dunn started writing about boxing in the "Willamette Week" She has been described as "one of the better boxing writers in the United States". She started boxing training in her 40s. She was an editor and contributor for the online boxing magazine cyberboxingzone.com. In the 1990s Dunn wrote a regular column on boxing for "PDXS" , in which she at one time provided detailed criticism of Evander Holyfield's sportsmanship in his controversial fight with Mike Tyson. She won the Dorothea Lange—Paul Taylor Award in 2004 for her work on "School of Hard Knocks: The Struggle for Survival in America’s