Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for John Updike across 3 places, from 1960 to 2009.
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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where John Updike was documented, and when
1960year
Ipswichattested“In Ipswich, Updike wrote Rabbit, Run (1960), on a Guggenheim Fellowship, and The Centaur (1963), two of his most acclaimed and famous works; the latter won the National Book Award.”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
1984year
Rhode Islandattested“After writing Rabbit Is Rich, Updike published The Witches of Eastwick (1984), a playful novel about witches living in Rhode Island.”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
27 January 2009exact date
Danvers, Massachusettsattested“Updike died of lung cancer at a hospice in Danvers, Massachusetts, on January 27, 2009, at age 76.”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
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Places John Updike is documented in
Danvers, Massachusetts1 presence · 2009
Ipswich1 presence · 1960
Rhode Island1 presence · 1984
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1950year
Harvard Universitymentioned“Updike graduated from Shillington High School as co-valedictorian and class president in 1950 and received a full scholarship to Harvard University, where he was the roommate of Christopher Lasch during their first year.”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
1950year
Shillington, Pennsylvaniamentioned“Updike graduated from Shillington High School as co-valedictorian and class president in 1950 and received a full scholarship to Harvard University, where he was the roommate of Christopher Lasch during their first year.”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
1950year
Governor Mifflin Senior High Schoolmentioned“Updike graduated from Shillington High School as co-valedictorian and class president in 1950 and received a full scholarship to Harvard University, where he was the roommate of Christopher Lasch during their first year.”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
1953year
Radcliffe Collegementioned“In 1953, while a student at Harvard, Updike married Mary Entwistle Pennington, an art student at Radcliffe College and daughter of a prominent Unitarian minister.”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
1953year
Harvard Universitymentioned“In 1953, while a student at Harvard, Updike married Mary Entwistle Pennington, an art student at Radcliffe College and daughter of a prominent Unitarian minister.”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
1955year
University of Oxfordmentioned“She accompanied him to Oxford, England, where she attended art school and their first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1955.”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
1955year
Oxford, Englandmentioned“She accompanied him to Oxford, England, where she attended art school and their first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1955.”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
1958 to 1959period
New Yorkmentioned“In New York, Updike wrote the poems and stories that came to fill his early books like The Carpentered Hen (1958) and The Same Door (1959).”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
1962year
New Yorkmentioned“Elsewhere he famously said, "When I write, I aim my mind not towards New York City but towards a vague spot east of Kansas." Some have suggested that the "best statement of Updike's aesthetic comes in his early memoir 'The Dogwood Tree'"…”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
1962year
New York Citymentioned“Elsewhere he famously said, "When I write, I aim my mind not towards New York City but towards a vague spot east of Kansas." Some have suggested that the "best statement of Updike's aesthetic comes in his early memoir 'The Dogwood Tree'"…”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
1965year
Pennsylvaniamentioned“Updike's early Olinger period was set in the Pennsylvania of his youth; it ended around 1965 with the lyrical Of the Farm.”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
1995year
Americamentioned“In 1995, Everyman's Library collected and canonized the four novels as the omnibus Rabbit Angstrom; Updike wrote an introduction in which he described Rabbit as "a ticket to the America all around me.”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
1996year
Americamentioned“In the midst of these, he wrote what was for him a more conventional novel, In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996), a historical saga spanning several generations and exploring themes of religion and cinema in America.”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
2004year
New Englandmentioned“In Villages (2004), Updike returned to the familiar territory of infidelities in New England.”source: Wikipedia: John Updike
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