John Updike's Life and Accomplishments

John Updike BY: Fernando Abreu Richard Waltemath III And Tauni McIntosh

[object Object], March 18, 1932 ,[object Object], At 13 years of age moved to mother’s birthplace 80-acre farm in Plowville, Pennsylvania ,[object Object], grandparents ,[object Object]

Mother aspiring writer, having a master’s at Cornwell, encouraging her son to write ,[object Object], valedictorian, worked as copy boy at Reading Eagle, newspaper

[object Object],scholarship, graduating summa cum laude, 1954 ,[object Object],to The New Yorker magazine ,[object Object], Oxford’s Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art ,[object Object], later and worked for The New Yorker ,[object Object]

Rabbit Run, feared at first because of the obscenity, well received and no legal actions

National Book Award for novel, The Centaur, inspired by childhood in Pennsylvania , 1963,[object Object]

[object Object], Boston where he briefly taught at Boston University ,[object Object], settling with her three children in Georgetown, Massachusetts ,[object Object], Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ,[object Object], for Rabbit at Rest ,[object Object], President George H.W. Bush ,[object Object], the Humanities from President George W. Bush, one of the very few Americans to receive this award

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