John Hoyer Updike: The Greatest Fiction Writer

Throughout life we are given the opportunity to benefit from our surroundings. For many years, writers have written books to help us learn and experience what is wrong and what is right. Books have helped many people in positive ways such as opening our minds to new ideas and educating people to use the power of thinking. Many authors have helped people connect to see life through their eyes and create new ideas for readers. John hoyer Updike set an important example for many people who considered him one of the greatest fiction writers. Born on March 18, 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania. His parents were Linda Grace Updike and Wesley Russell Updike who were originally from New Jersey. His father worked as a telephone splicer who got laid off
during the depression. After the depression they moved to Shillington, Pennsylvania where his mother was orginally from. John Updike father became a science teacher at a local highschool in 1936. John attended public school in the same neighborhood until 1950 and about ten miles away his family bought a farmhouse in Plowville, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1950 as the president and valedictorian from Shillington highschool. During that same summer he worked as a copy boy got a Company called reading eagle. He started writing a few stories for the local newspaper. Leading him to Harvard and writing for their newspaper which he became the president for. A few years later, in 1953 he married his wife Mary E. Pennington who was a couple years older then him. She was arts major from Radcliffe