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Dec 7, 1997 · By John Updike. December 7, 1997. In some issues of the Harvard Lampoon, over half the art work was by Updike. Drawings by John Updike; courtesy the Harvard Lampoon. In the thirties and forties ...
Apr 21, 2014 · During the Second World War, Updike’s mother, Linda, worked in a parachute factory, and she managed to save enough money to buy back her father’s eighty-three-acre farm, in Plowville, eleven ...
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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as ...
Long before he began writing novels, John Updike wanted to be a cartoonist. "Mickey Mouse and I are the same age," says the twinkle-eyed novelist on a recent afternoon visit to the New York ...
Apr 5, 2014 · On Updike writing for The New Yorker. He once described the New Yorker voice — that "we" — as a bunch of dazed farm boys who were dazzled and delighted by New York. So, in a sense, you want to ...
Jan 28, 2009 · Dan Wasserman at the Boston Globe writes about the writer and long-time admirer of cartoon and comic art here. As previously covered on the Bloghorn, Updike was one of many well-known public figures who dabbled in cartooning but found they lacked the full set of skills necessary to survive in its competitive world.
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Born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1932, he studied to be a cartoonist before beginning his long association with The New Yorker, in 1954, as a contributor of Talk of the Town pieces, fiction ...
