After Fussell moved from his home in Princeton, New Jersey, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he divorced Betty and married Harriette Behringer. As a professor, he travelled widely with his family throughout Europe from the 1950s to '70s, taking Fulbright and sabbatical years in Germany, England and France.īetty Fussell has described their marriage and its breakup in 1981 in her memoir, My Kitchen Wars. He also taught at the University of Heidelberg (1957–58) and King's College London (1990–92).

He began his teaching career at Connecticut College (1951–55) before moving to Rutgers University in 1955 and finally the University of Pennsylvania in 1983. degree in 1946-7, married fellow Pomona graduate Betty Harper in 1949, and completed his MA (1949) and PhD (1952) at Harvard University. He was honorably discharged from the Army in 1946, returned to Pomona to finish his B.A. He landed in France in 1944 as a 20-year-old second lieutenant with the 103rd Infantry Division ( 45th Infantry Division, according to Fussell in his article on the atom bomb in The New Republic, 1981) and was wounded while fighting in Alsace, and was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. His son, Samuel Wilson Fussell, a writer and hunter in Montana, is the author of Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder.įussell attended Pomona College from 1941 until he was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. His daughter, Rosalind, is an artist-teacher in Arizona and the author of a graphic novel, Mammoir: A Pictorial Odyssey of the Adventures of a Fourth Grade Teacher with Breast Cancer. His brother, Edwin Sill Fussell, was an author, poet, and professor of American Studies at the University of California, San Diego his sister Florence Fussell Lind lives in Berkeley, California. His mother, Wilhma Wilson Sill (1893–1971), was the daughter of a carriage trimmer in Illinois. His father, Paul Fussell (1895–1973), son of a widowed schoolteacher, became a corporate lawyer in Los Angeles with the firm of O'Melveny & Myers. Born and raised in Pasadena, California, Fussell was the second of three children.

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