David Updike (born 1957) is an American writer and academic. Updike was the son of author

John Updike 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 ...

who used David as a model in several pieces of fictional writing including ''Wife-wooing, Avec la Bebe-sitter, Son'', and ''Separating''. David Updike was born in 1957 as the second child of John Updike and Mary Pennington (Updike) Weatherall. Updike grew up largely in

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and graduated from

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1980 with an art history degree and then received a M.A.T. from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1984.Will Broaddus
"Family territory: Updike's son to read from his short story collection in Salem
''Salem News,'' Sep 25, 2009 While in college in 1978 Updike published the first of nine pieces in ''

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'' where his father and paternal grandmother also published."David Updike"
goodreads.com In 1988 Updike published a collection of short stories entitled ''Out on the Marsh'' and later he published a four piece set of young adult books entitled ''A Winter Journey, An Autumn Tale, A Spring Story,'' and ''The Sounds of Summer''.David Updike: About the Author
MacMillan In 2006 he published a novel entitled novel, ''Ivy's Turn'', regarding

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relationships in the 1990s and the

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of the 1960s. In 2009 Updike published another collection of short stories entitled ''Old Girlfriends''.Jim Concannon
"His own man,"
''The Boston Globe,'' July 21, 2009 In addition to his pieces in ''

'', Updike has published individual short stories in many publications including ''Epiphany,

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, Harpers,'' and ''

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,'' which published his first publication in college. Updike provided the photographs for his father's children's book, ''A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects''. Updike has taught creative writing at

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and currently is a professor of English at Boston's

Roxbury Community College Roxbury Community College (RCC) is a public community college in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. RCC offers associate degrees in arts, and sciences, as well as certificates. RCC has transfer agreements with Curry College, North ...

. Updike's wife, Wambui, is a native of

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, and they have a son Wesley and live in

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. Updike considers his literary career more similar to his grandmother, Linda Grace Hoyer Updike's, than his father's.

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