![]() ![]() ![]() But in 1969 the tide of prosperity set in, and they set up in the back bedroom. After eighteen months of doing maps and small books they had only four hundred pounds left. He took a leave of absence "to do research." The research was to see if he could live without teaching. After returning to Kettering, in 1966, he and his wife decided to do something different. In 1956, he returned to Huron with his wife and son. In 1952, after marrying and having a son, he was made headmaster of a school in Kettering, where the influence of American schools was apparent in his methods. He left at the end of the school year, and during the war he was an Intelligence officer in the British Air Force. His time in America made a great impression on him. ![]() He started teaching at the age of eighteen, and in 1938 he got a job teaching in Huron, South Dakota, in Beadle County. His business occupies the back bedroom of his house in Kettering, Northamptonshire. Carr has also published sixty-one three-by-five inch booklets on favorite poets and writers, several improbable dictionaries, and forty idiosyncratic maps of the English counties, most illustrated by himself. It is the most recent of his five novels. In 1980, it won the Guardian Fiction Prize. Carr, the English novelist, who was in New York presenting a manuscript of his "A Month in the Country" to the Morgan Library. ![]()
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