Bedford Co., VA - For 150 years a Bedford County family has been dedicated to helping other families in their times of need. The business that would become Updike Funeral Home started in 1864 when ...
Jimmy Woodrow Noell, 70, of Bedford, passed away Thursday, . Funeral Service will be 4 p.m. Sunday, , at Bedford Presbyterian Church. Arrangements by Updike Funeral Home & ...
Eula Updike Morgan, 82, of Huddleston, Va., passed away on Wednesday, , at Bedford County Nursing Home. She was born on Saturday, , in Bedford County, a daughter of the ...
John Hoyer Updike ( – ) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
John Updike, American writer of novels, short stories, and poetry, known for his careful craftsmanship and realistic but subtle depiction of ‘American, Protestant, small-town, middle-class’ life.
Updike carries off the satire with a light touch, affectionately sending up literary squabbles and personal rivalries. This is the novel that made Updike rich and famous and put him on the...
Updike began his remarkable career as a poet in 1958 by publishing his first volume, a collection of poems titled The Carpentered Hen. It is a book of light, amusing verse in the style of Ogden Nash (1902–1971) and Robert Service (1874–1958).
“In a way, what Melville did for whales, Updike did for upper-middle-class life in suburban America: He produced partly allegorical realist novels containing an encyclopedic array of the thousands of facets of human experience, all collected with loving attention to his subject matter.”—Orhan Pamuk, The New York Times Book Review
Novelist, short story writer and poet, John Updike was one of America's premier men of letters. As a boy growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania, he suffered from psoriasis and a stammer, ailments that set him apart from his peers.