1982

Going Great at 50
Writer John Updike
October 18, 1982

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Ladies and gentlemen, this is your tour guide speaking, welcoming you once again to the New England literary express. We've already visited the houses of Hawthorne, Melville and Robert Frost. Next, a live one. Our bus is 25 miles north of Boston and nearing the seaside home of John Updike. Get your cameras ready. You will find the author's barony photogenic, and the author, if we should spot him, has weathered well himself. It might interest you to know that our subject and his second wife Martha moved here in the spring of 1982, a particularly productive time in the life of... Rabbit is rich. Bech is back. Updike is ubiquitous...Read the full story