John Hoyer Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania on March 18, 1942. He was the only child of parents, Wesley Hoyer Updike, and mother, Linda Grove Hoyer. His father was a high school math teacher and his mother was a housewife. In1936, at the age of four John began attending public schools in Shillington. Nine years later, in 1945, on Halloween day he moved with his parents and grandparents to a farm in the town of Plowville, Pennsylvania. …showed first 75 words of 575 total…

…showed last 75 words of 575 total…In 1995 he published his first book of children’s poetry, A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects. Between 1996 and 2001 he published two more children books of poetry and four more novels that were sequels to some of his old ones, such as, Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, “Rabbit Remembered.” To this day John Updike is still writing poetry, short stories, and novels. He is still living with is wife Martha in Beverly Farms.