![]() They were married in 1956, the same year he graduated from Goddard College, and he worked in a series of odd jobs. Marriage and early career Īnthony met his future wife, Carol Marble, while both were attending college. He said, "I didn't like being a member of the underclass, of the peons like that". ![]() He recalls being part of "the lower crust", and that no one paid attention to, or cared about him. ![]() ![]() Anthony referred to his high school as a "very fancy private school", and refuses to donate money to it. On This American Life on 27 July 2012, Anthony revealed that his parents had divorced, he was bullied, and he had poor grades in school. Piers was moved around to a number of schools, eventually enrolling in Goddard College in Vermont where he graduated in 1956. Both parents resumed their academic studies, and Alfred eventually became a professor of Romance languages, teaching at a number of colleges in the Philadelphia area. In 1941 the family settled in a rustic "back to the land" utopian community near Winhall, Vermont, where a young Piers made the acquaintance of radical author Scott Nearing, a neighbor. ![]() Alfred Jacob, although a British citizen, had been born in America near Philadelphia, and in 1940, after being forced out of Spain and with the situation in Britain deteriorating, the family sailed to the United States. Piers and his sister were left in England in the care of their maternal grandparents and a nanny. Anthony's parents, Alfred and Norma Jacob, were Quaker pacifists studying at Oxford University who interrupted their studies in 1936 to undertake relief work on behalf of the Quakers during the Spanish Civil War, establishing a food kitchen for children in Barcelona. ![]()
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