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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 ...
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The novel explores the relationship between the depressive Caldwell and his anxious son, loosely based on John Updike's relationship with his father, Wesley Updike, a teacher at Shillington High School. George has largely given up on life; what glory he knew, as a football player and soldier in World War I, has passed.
10 ago 2009 · New York Times Blog. A Toast to the Visible World: Remembering John Updike. By David Updike. August 10, 2009 10:56 am. John Updike’s son David is also a writer; tonight at 7 p.m., he’ll...
27 gen 2022 · John’s father, Wesley Updike, was a science and math teacher at Shillington High, a truth-seeker, who thought it a Christian duty to absorb criticism, and went out of his way to help...
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1 feb 2009 · Updike at a glance. A literary life. The Observer. Sat 31 Jan 2009 19.01 EST. 1932 Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, to Wesley Updike, a high school maths teacher, and Linda Updike, an author....
28 gen 2009 · John Updike, the kaleidoscopically gifted writer whose quartet of Rabbit novels highlighted a body of fiction, verse, essays and criticism so vast, protean and lyrical as to place him in the...
