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Apr 21, 2014 · John Updike moved with his wife, Mary, and their two children from New York City to Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1957. He had just turned twenty-five.
- Louis Menand
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...
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.
Updike was serially unfaithful, and eventually left the marriage in 1974 for Martha Ruggles Bernhard. [42] In 1977, Updike and Bernhard married. In 1982, his first wife married an MIT academic. Updike and Bernhard lived for more than 30 years in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. Updike had three stepsons through Bernhard. [43]
Dec 29, 2019 · While in Oxford, he met E. B. White and his wife Katharine White, who was fiction editor of the The New Yorker. She offered him a job and the magazine bought ten poems and four stories; his first story, “Friends from Philadelphia,” appears on the October 30, 1954 issue.
- Angelica Frey
Wesley Russell Updike (1900-1972) was an American educator, soldier, and father of author John Updike, husband of writer Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, and grandfather of David Updike.
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May 10, 2014 · That his first wife, Mary, tearfully insisted that their first child be born in hospital despite the 1950s NHS policy (they were living in Oxford at the time) of promoting home births; that...
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