John updike biography timeline info

—John Hoyer Updike is born on 18 March in a hospital in West Reading, Pa., the only child of Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, an aspiring writer, and Wesley Russell Updike, a high school mathematics teacher.

Because of hard times, they live with Linda&#;s parents at the house John Hoyer owned at Philadelphia Avenue, in Shillington.

—Updike enters the Shillington public school system.

—Updike enters Shillington High School, where, as a seventh grader and with the publication of &#;A Handshake with the Congressman,&#; he contributes the first of some drawings, articles, and light verse to the school newspaper and literary magazine, the Chatterbox.

—Updike&#;s family moves from the house at Philadelphia Avenue—which was within a short walk of the high school, the after-school hangouts, the playground, and the county poorhouse where children often played—to his mother&#;s birthplace on a acre farm in nearby Plowville.

—Updike works as a copy boy for the Readin