Harcourt

In New York City.

She works for the Harcourt, Brace and Company, right? And then one day, she travels from New York to Cambridge to see a football game at Harvard with a friend, and that's where she meets her future husband, Martin Risch, and she was smitten.

She even tells her aunt that he's the fella that she's gonna marry, and they do get married, right? In December 1955, they get hitched.

Now, Wikipedia will say 1956.

The nearest thing to a male romantic figure was Erik Langager.

He was a Danish immigrant and a textbook salesman for her publisher, Harcourt Brace.

According to AI, the romance did not last.

Pardon the short break.

This is kind of a well-known set of books.

It's a five-volume set published by Harcourt Brace and Jovanovic in the 70s, and it's called The History of Western Philosophy.

Here's a book called The Medieval Mind, deals with how really Thomas Aquinas, he lived 1225 to 1274, Aquinas, as a Christian apologist, stopped the march of Islam across Europe in the 1200s, and medieval philosophy was very Christian.

Now, here's my point.

Yeah, yeah, 1985, jump.

So he sent an editor at Harcourt Brace, and we met, and her name was Bonnie Verberg, And Bonnie was a little skeptical because most people know my work as being black and white.

And she was skeptical because she didn't know I knew how to use color.

And I said, well, hell, I was trained as a painter and I know color.

And there, while earning her degree in English literature, Joan supported herself working part-time as a waitress, and in 1952 she graduated with honors.

From there, Joan got a job in the New York offices of a popular textbook publishing company called Harcourt Brace and World Inc., and her colleagues thought really highly of her.

She was responsible and capable, but she was also looking to settle down.

In the fall of 1953, Joan's roommate set her up on a blind date with a man named Martin Donald Risch.