John updike autobiography
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John Updike Biography
Born: March 18, 1932
Shillington, Pennsylvania
American author and poet
Author John Updike mirrored his America in poems, short stories, essays, and novels, especially the four-volume "Rabbit" series.
Early life
John Hoyer Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania.
John updike autobiography
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.
A sickly child, Updike turned to reading and art as an escape. In high school, he worked on the school newspaper and excelled in academics and upon graduation was admitted into Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
At the age of twenty-two, Updike began his writing career when he published his first story "Friends from Philadelphia," in