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. …
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