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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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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 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 life.
This lecture serves as an intimate and loving look at the mundane world John Updike chronicled, illustrated by slides of the Pennsylvania places he wrote of ...
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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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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John Updike. 1932 –. 2009. Read poems by this poet. Poet, essayist, short-story writer, critic, and novelist John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, on March 18, 1932. His father taught high school math, and his mother wrote short stories and novels. Updike received his BA from Harvard University in 1954, the year he began to ...
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