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Jul 8, 2009 · The Pulitzer Prize winning author discusses growing up in Shillington, Pennsylvania, and the influence of the town on his childhood, his writing, and his per...
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Early life. John Hoyer Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. His father, Wesley, was a high school mathematics teacher, the model for several sympathetic father figures in Updike's early works. Because Updike's mother, Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, had literary dreams of her own, books were a large part of the boy's early ...
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 ...
John Updike (born March 18, 1932, Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died January 27, 2009, Danvers, Massachusetts) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and poetry, known for his careful craftsmanship and realistic but subtle depiction of “American, Protestant, small-town, middle-class” life. Updike grew up in Shillington ...
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Dec 29, 2019 · Fast Facts: John Updike. Full Name: John Hoyer Updike. Known For: Pulitzer Prize winning American writer whose fiction explored the tensions of the American middle class, sexuality, and religion. Born: March 18, 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Parents: Wesley Russell Updike, Linda Updike (née Hoyer) Died: January 27, 2009 in Danvers, Massachusetts.
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Jan 27, 2009 · January 27, 2009. John Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and spent his first years in nearby Shillington, a small town where his father was a high school science teacher. The area surrounding Reading has provided the setting for many of his stories, with the invented towns of Brewer and Olinger standing in for Reading and Shillington.
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Updike’s career as a writer has been remarkably prolific and varied. In addition to poetry, his work included novels ( The Witches of Eastwick , Rabbit Redux , and Rabbit, Run ), short stories, music criticism ( Concerts at Castle Hill ), and essays on art ( Just Looking: Essays on Art ) and golf ( Golf Dreams: Writing on Golf ).
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