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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. Wesley Updike served as a prominent model for many main characters his son's works, including as the central character in The Centaur (1963), which won the ...
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.
Geboren am 22 Feb 1900. Gestorben am 16 Apr 1972. Bestattet in Plowville, Pennsylvania, USA.
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. The family later moved to the unincorporated village of Plowville. His mother's attempts to become a published writer impressed the young Updike ...
- John Hoyer Updike, March 18, 1932, Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Literary realism
- January 27, 2009 (aged 76), Danvers, Massachusetts, U.S.
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...
12. Apr. 2024 · 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.
28. Jan. 2009 · He was the only child of Wesley Russell Updike, a junior high school math teacher of Dutch descent, and Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, who later also published fiction in The New Yorker and...
