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Like his narrator, Updike followed Pennington, herself a Fine Arts concentrator, through the Fogg and a few more classes in the department. In June of 1953, at the end of Updike??€™s junior year, they were married. Updike moved out of Lowell House and into an apartment at 79 Martin St., where he remained through his senior year...
...that point in Updike??€™s undergraduate career, his interests had veered increasingly toward writing...
...rejected, as were a few other attempts. But the summer after Updike??€™s graduation, preparing to study drawing at Oxford on a Knox fellowship in the fall, he wrote a short story in response to a piece by John Cheever that he had read. The New Yorker accepted it and, a bit later, bought a slightly revised version of his ex-basketball-player story, now titled “Ace in the Hole...
Flick Webb is the subject of an early poem that remains one of his most anthologized, and, more famously, the figure of the ex-basketball player evolved into Rabbit Angstrom, the hero of a tetrology of novels that remains the cornerstone of Updike??€™s oeuvre...
...England setting that has been his home for nearly 50 years has strongly colored Updike??€™s work, particularly during the second half of his career...