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Linda Grace Hoyer Updike (1904–1989) was an American writer from Plowville, Pennsylvania. She was the mother of writer John Updike and grandmother of writer David Updike. Linda Updike also served as the model for several of her son's characters, including one of the main characters in the novel Of the Farm .
27 de jul. de 2001 · https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/library_sum/1. Linda Grace Hoyer was a brilliant individual. She graduated from Ursinus College at the age of nineteen, received a master's from Cornell University, and after many years of diligent work, published two novels and a myriad of short stories.
10 de may. de 2013 · My Mother, My Rival: The Revolutionary Honesty of Resenting Your Kids. By Michelle Dean. Linda Grace Hoyer had little luck as a writer, so she encouraged her son, John Updike, to follow the path. His success might have sparked a grudge in her, but let’s not pretend that means she wasn’t a good mother. 1.
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10 de ago. de 2009 · My father’s parents were Wesley Russell Updike, a high school math teacher and coach, and his wife, Linda Grace Hoyer, a bookish farm girl who gave her only child his first inklings of a...
Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, the only child of Linda Grace (née Hoyer) and Wesley Russell Updike, and was raised at his childhood home in the nearby small town of Shillington. [6] The family later moved to the unincorporated village of Plowville. His mother's attempts to become a published writer impressed the young Updike.
This is a collection of digitized letters and postcards from Linda Grace Hoyer to her son, John Updike. The collection spans the years 1939-1989.
