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DAVID UPDIKE

David Updike (1957– )   Son of prolific American writer John Updike, David was born in Massachusetts, studied Art History at Harvard, and received his M.A.T. from Columbia University. His published work includes A Winter Journey (1985), An Autumn Tale (1988), A Spring Story (1989), and The Sounds of Summer (1993). This illustrated quartet for young readers blends taut suspense with vivid description and follows a boy named Homer and his beloved dog Sophocles. His short stories have been published in The New Yorker, and in the collection Out on the Marsh (1988). Updike has taught English and Creative Writing at MIT and Roxbury Community College in Boston.

 

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