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Linda Grace Hoyer Updike (1904–1989) was an American writer from Plowville, Pennsylvania. She was the mother of writer John Updike and grandmother of writer David Updike. Linda Updike also served as the model for several of her son's characters, including one of the main characters in the novel Of the Farm .
27 juil. 2001 · Linda Grace Hoyer was a brilliant individual. She graduated from Ursinus College at the age of nineteen, received a master's from Cornell University, and after many years of diligent work, published two novels and a myriad of short stories. She lived an unusual life: reflective, feminine in her thought processes, but nevertheless ...
- Leslie Hoffman
- 2001
10 mai 2013 · My Mother, My Rival: The Revolutionary Honesty of Resenting Your Kids. By Michelle Dean. Linda Grace Hoyer had little luck as a writer, so she encouraged her son, John Updike, to follow the path. His success might have sparked a grudge in her, but let’s not pretend that means she wasn’t a good mother. 1.
The Linda Grace Hoyer collection at Ursinus College consists of Linda’s professional and personal writings. Drafts and proofs of her many short stories as well as novels (published and unpublished) accompany correspondence with editors and publishing houses. Also in the collection is correspondence with family and friends spanning fifty years ...
This is a collection of digitized letters and postcards from Linda Grace Hoyer to her son, John Updike. The collection spans the years 1939-1989.
10 août 2009 · My father’s parents were Wesley Russell Updike, a high school math teacher and coach, and his wife, Linda Grace Hoyer, a bookish farm girl who gave her only child his first inklings of a creative...
A prolific writer with ambitions as lofty as her famous son, Linda Grace Hoyer’s literary papers are a testament to the work ethic and perseverance required of any creative writer. Her correspondence is both a chronicle of family relationships and a rich source of local history.
