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Jul 27, 2001 · Hoffman, Leslie, "Linda Grace Hoyer Updike: Woman, Author, and Mother" (2001). Library Summer Fellows. 1. Linda Grace Hoyer was a brilliant individual. She graduated from Ursinus College at the age of nineteen, received a master's from Cornell University, and after many years of diligent work, published two novels and a myriad of short stories.
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Letter from Linda Grace Hoyer to John Updike, April 16,...
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In this hand written letter, Linda Grace Hoyer tells her...
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May 10, 2013 · Linda Grace Hoyer (she didn’t like to use her married name in print) doesn’t seem to have given any real interviews, or written any memoirs, of her own. It is from Updike’s reports that we must get the known facts of her life. She was born and died in the same brown, sandstone house in Plowville, Pennsylvania.
Letter from Linda Grace Hoyer to John Updike, April 16, 1951. Linda Grace Hoyer. In this typed letter from Linda Grace Hoyer to her son, John Updike, Linda describes the recent loss of inspiration while working on her novel, but speaks of her plans to push forward in writing.
Mar 26, 2014 · To say that Linda Grace Hoyer Updike encouraged her only child and nurtured his precocious talent is to understate and simplify an unusually close and complicated relationship.
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Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, the only child of Linda Grace (née Hoyer) and Wesley Russell Updike, and was raised at his childhood home in the nearby small town of Shillington. [6] The family later moved to the unincorporated village of Plowville. His mother's attempts to become a published writer impressed the young Updike.
In this hand written letter, Linda Grace Hoyer tells her son, John Updike, about traveling in New England, and experiences while staying with Don and Mary Updike in Greenwich, Connecticut. Linda speaks at length about the Glass Flowers exhibit at Harvard University, and tells John to visit when life gets dull.
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Aug 10, 2009 · My father’s parents were Wesley Russell Updike, a high school math teacher and coach, and his wife, Linda Grace Hoyer, a bookish farm girl who gave her only child his first inklings of a creative life beyond their small Pennsylvania town. Their son, Jahnny, was not famous in 1950 — he was a skinny, brainy boy with an abundance of creative energy, an aspiring cartoonist who also had asthma ...
