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Living a lie is a poor substitute for living the truth sometimes it takes the harsh realties of life to help us discover who we truly are. The legendary Lana...
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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Dramatic story of a young, single-mother Laura (Lana Turner) who takes in likewise situated Annie and her young daugher Sara-Jane. All struggle to get by unt...
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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 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.
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 ...
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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.
