John Updike

On March 18 1932, John Hoyer Updike was born in Reading, PA, the son of Linda Grace Hoyer Updike and Wesley Russell Updike. Until 13 years of age he lived at 117 Philadelphia Avenue in Shillington, PA. In 1936 he began attending public schools in Shillington. In 1945, on Halloween Day, he moves with his parents and grandparents to a farmhouse on an 80-acre farm in the country near Plowville, PA, eleven miles from Shillington. Updike continues to attend the Shillington public schools, where his father taught junior high school mathematics. In 1950 he graduated as president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School.

Rabbit Redux was published in 1971. In 1975 A Month of Sundays, the first in his "Scarlet Letter" trilogy, was published. Marry Me: A Romance was published in 1976 published.

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