John Updike
John Hoyer Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania on March 18, 1942. He was the only child of parents, Wesley Hoyer Updike, and mother, Linda Grove Hoyer. His father was a high school math teacher and his mother was a housewife. In1936, at the age of four John began attending public schools in Shillington. Nine years later, in 1945, on Halloween day he moved with his parents and grandparents to a farm in the town of Plowville, Pennsylvania. Even though John and his family moved to a new town he still attended Shillington public schools. In 1950, at the age of eighteen he graduated from Shillington High School as president and co - valedictorian. In the summer of 1950, john began his first real job as a copy boy for the, READING EAGLE, also writing a few lead stories for the paper as well. In the fall of that same year he attended Harvard University, and wrote for the, Harvard Lampoon, a humor magazine. Three years
In 1984, The Witches of Eastwick is published and three years later it is turned into a motion picture. The movie was directed by, George Miller and starred, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jack Nicholson, Cher, and Susan Sarandon. Between the years of 1984 and 1992 he received twelve more awards for his work in literature. In 1992 he received a Doctor of Letters honorary degree from his Alma matter, Harvard University. In 1995 he published his first book of children's poetry, A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects. Between 1996 and 2001 he published two more children books of poetry and four more novels that were sequels to some of his old ones, such as, Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered." To this day John Updike is still writing poetry, short stories, and novels. He is still living with is wife Martha in Beverly Farms. later in 1953, he married Mary E. Pennington on June 26, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. I
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