A LOOK BACK
AT
MARY & JOHN
UPDIKE
THE UPDIKES AT HOME
AT 50 LABOR-IN-VAIN ROAD
IPSWICH, MASSACHUSETTS, 1972
John Updike to Gwendolyn Stewart, May 25, 1972, on the photographs from the January 11, 1972, session: "They're all really great, very alive. It's hard to choose. But I took two, one head, the 'straighter' head, though the other is well-night [sic] irresistible, and the one of Mary and me where there is a glint of hope that we may reconcile our differences. Thanks so much."
(John Updike and Mary Pennington married in 1953, separated in 1974, and divorced in 1976; they had four children.)
JOHN UPDIKE IN THE NEWS
with a splash
in the New York Times today
