"YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS ARE AS DAZZLING AS YOUR SUBJECTS"

Monday, June 21, 2010

UPDIKE IN THE NEWS: A LOOK BACK AT JOHN & MARY

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 

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