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Show -176- 1932, back to his hometown to finish college. The year he had graduated there were no jobs, so he had gone to the state university in Salt Lake and earned a master's degree in literature. In the spring of that year, he met and married his wife, even though he, as yet, had no job. In midsummer he heard of a teaching position at a small high school in the center of the state. He applied for it and won it. He remained at this school for two years, then moved to another high school in the vicinity of Salt Lake. During this year he founded a small literary magazine, and at the end of the year he was invited to join the faculty of a small college in Southern Utah. During these early teaching years, his two children were born. By 1940, he had completed his first novel, which won a prize as the best manuscript submitted in a contest in a nearby state, but which no publisher wanted to put into print. He borrowed money from a bank in his hometown, took a leave without pay from the college, and went away to graduate school in the Midwest. He had not planned to work seriously on his Ph.D. when he enrolled for more graduate work. He m s still trying to |
