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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...
Grey, stooped Miss Edith Brooking inspected her wrecked cottage in Shillington. Said she: "We are thankful that our sacrifice has been worth while. We are proud that it was on our beaches that the Americans practiced the landings they made so gallantly on the beaches of Normandy...