Reading Eagle reports on David Updike’s conference talk

The Reading Eagle and its online counterpart Berks-Mont News posted an article on David Updike‘s plenary presentation at the 3rd Biennial John Updike Society Conference at Alvernia University.

“Through a journey of personal photographs and insight, David Updike, son of Pulitzer Prize winning author and Shillington native John Updike, spoke about his father’s childhood Oct. 2. . . .

“A slide show of photographs from John’s childhood accompanied Updike. Very few images of the inside of his father’s Shillington home exist, but the remnants of John Updike’s creativity survive. . . .

“‘Very early on he was aware of his authorship,’ he said, standing before a projection screen showing a photograph of his father’s practice signatures from when he was a boy. . . .

“‘His mother must have been startled and had to understand that this is no ordinary child,’ David said. ‘She kept his early works in a notebook.”

Here’s the whole article: “David Updike shares stories of father’s past.”