The novelist Charles Webb died at the age of 81. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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An American author of novels such as Love, Roger (1969) and The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1970), he is best known for his 1963 work, The Graduate, which was adapted into a popular 1967 film. His later novel, New Cardiff, was also turned into the 2003 film, Hope Springs.
He lived with his partner, Eve, for many decades. The couple’s children were illegally home-schooled in California for a time.