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Martha Franc Ruggles Bernhard Updike (October 18, 1937 – October 9, 2023) was an American social worker and the widow of author John Updike.She served as a model for several of his fictional characters, including in his story "A Constellation of Events", which was loosely based on the initiation of their relationship.
Robert L. Updike House is a historic home located at Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built in 1904, and is a two-story, three-bay, vernacular Colonial Revival style brick dwelling. It has a steep gable roof and features a full height portico on the front facade. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as ...
Oct. 15—Two elderly Bedford residents died from carbon monoxide poisoning in their home Sunday, the state Medical Examiner's Office announced Tuesday. The victims were identified as 78-year-old ...
Linda Grace Hoyer Updike (1904–1989) was an American writer from Plowville, Pennsylvania. She was the mother of writer John Updike and grandmother of writer David Updike . Linda Updike also served as the model for several of her son's characters, including one of the main characters in the novel Of the Farm .
Huddleston is an unincorporated community in southeastern Bedford County, Virginia, United States. The community lies along State Route 626 and is located 12.5 miles (20.1 km) south-southeast of Bedford. It is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Daniel Berkeley Updike was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on February 24, 1860, the only child of Caesar Augustus Updike (1824-1877) and Elizabeth Bigelow Adams (1830-1895); he left school when his father died on October 9, 1877. Updike first assisted at a local library after the librarian had taken ill.
In Virginia, unincorporated towns are essentially unincorporated communities without a formal political structure. They may also be called villages. Virginia does not officially recognize villages or unincorporated towns or communities as units of political subdivision of the state, unlike counties, independent cities, and incorporated towns.