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Wesley Updike playing football at Ursinus College, ca. 1920s. 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.
Geboren am 22 Feb 1900. Gestorben am 16 Apr 1972. Bestattet in Plowville, Pennsylvania, USA.
10. Aug. 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 Updike wurde als einziger Sohn des Lehrers Wesley Russell Updike (1900–1972) und dessen Frau Linda Grace Hoyer (1904–1989) im Reading Hospital, West Reading in Pennsylvania geboren und wuchs bis zu seinem 13. Lebensjahr in dem nahegelegenen Shillington auf einer abgelegenen Farm in ärmlichen Verhältnissen auf.
Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, the only child of Linda Grace (née Hoyer) and Wesley Russell Updike, and was raised at his childhood home in the nearby small town of Shillington. [6] . The family later moved to the unincorporated village of Plowville. His mother's attempts to become a published writer impressed the young Updike.
When Wesley Russell Updike was born on 22 February 1900, in Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States, his father, Reverend Hartley Titus Updike, was 39 and his mother, Virginia E Blackwood, was 34. He married Linda Grace Hoyer on 31 August 1925, in Tompkins, Delaware, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
27. Jan. 2009 · The only child of Wesley Russell Updike, a junior-high-school math teacher of German descent, and Linda Grace (Hoyer) Updike, an aspiring writer, he lived a solitary childhood made more so...
