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Mike Rose

In the small town of Shillington, Pennsylvania, near Reading, is the place where John Updike was raised. John went to and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1954. He then spent a year at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, England.
When he returned to the United States he found a job working on the staff of The New Yorker. This was a chance for Updike to have some of his short stories published. Updike had a collection of poems published in 1958 called The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Animals. The following year he had The Same Door and The Poorhouse Fair, his first novel, published. Following two years working at The New ...

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