John Updike, poet - Plowville, PA
N 40° 13.250 W 075° 54.326
18T E 422961 N 4452661
John Updike is buried here, in the Robeson Lutheran Church cemetery, not far from his Reading birthplace.
Waymark Code: WM19HJX
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 03/02/2024
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John Updike was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer, as well as art critic and literary critic.
He was already writing when he attended Harvard where he wrote for the school newspapers. He worked as a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine before quitting and having many published works.
He twice won the Pullitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1982 for Rabbit is Rich and in 1991 for Rabbit at Rest, as well as many other awards.
His gravestone reads:
JOHN HOYER UPDIKE
March 18, 1931
January 27, 2009
From Waymark WMYTMR:
John Updike's tombstone was made by his son Michael and on the backside, Michael carved a poem that John wrote very early in his career called Telephone Poles.
The old men say
young men in gray
hung this thread across our plains
acres and acres ago.
But we the enlightened, know
in point of fact it’s what remains
of the flight of a marvellous crow
no one saw;
each pole a caw.
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