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Word: shillington (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want of trying. The whole corpus of Updike's fiction before Couples amounts to a memoir of his boyhood. His mother has called those writings "valentines" to the friends and family back home in the small (pop. 5,639) Pennsylvania Dutch farm town of Shillington, three miles from Reading, where John was born. His mother, Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, is a cosmopolitan, well-educated writer herself (four stories in The New Yorker since John blazed the way), and she has always loathed everything about Shillington. She admits now to having broken up a high-school romance of John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Authors: View from the Catacombs | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...find out that Mr. Updike was born in Shillington, Pa., where he received his secondary education, and that after Harvard he studied art in England on a Knox fellowship. We learned that he is married (to a Radcliffe alumnae) and has four children. But then it really was noon, and we scurried off to catch up on modern novels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Updike Decided to Teach For Brief Change of Pace | 8/16/1962 | See Source »

Nothing in John Updike's life seems like adequate preparation for the private terrors of his characters. Dry and courteous, only child of a high school mathematics teacher in Shillington, Pa., he brings to mind Picasso's picture Boy Leading a Horse and bears a pleasant resemblance to the lad. As a boy. Updike wanted to be a cartoonist for Disney or The New Yorker, and after Harvard he studied drawing at Oxford. He no longer draws or paints but is acute enough to know that his writing "is excessively pictorial." He began sending work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Desperate Weakling | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

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