David Updike

{{Short description|American writer and academic}}

David Updike (born 1957) is an American writer and academic. Updike is the son of author John Updike, who used him as a model for characters in several works of fiction, including Wife-wooing, Avec la Bebe-sitter, Son, and Separating.Jack De Bellis, The John Updike Encyclopedia, (2000), p. 462

David Updike is the second child of John Updike and Mary Pennington (Updike) Weatherall. He grew up largely in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard University in 1980 with an art history degree and from Columbia University in 1984 with an M.A.T.Will Broaddus, [https://www.salemnews.com/archives/family-territory-updikes-son-to-read-from-his-short-story-collection-in-salem/article_91b43a77-7902-5933-bb6b-b3296302ea11.html "Family territory: Updike's son to read from his short story collection in Salem], Salem News, Sep 25, 2009 In 1978, Updike published the first of nine pieces in The New Yorker.[https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/254477.David_Updike "David Updike"]; goodreads.comAdam Begley, Updike (2014){{Cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/David-updike |title=Contributors David Updike; New Yorker |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=2022-08-07 |archive-date=2022-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817054456/https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/david-updike |url-status=dead }} In 1988, he published a collection of short stories, Out on the Marsh, and he later published a four-piece set of young-adult books, A Winter Journey, An Autumn Tale, A Spring Story, and The Sounds of Summer.[https://us.macmillan.com/author/davidupdike David Updike: About the Author] MacMillan In 2006, he published a novel, Ivy's Turn, about interracial relationships in the 1990s and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. In 2009, Updike published another collection of short stories, Old Girlfriends.Jim Concannon, [http://archive.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/07/21/david_updike_is_his_own_man/ "His own man,"] The Boston Globe, July 21, 2009 In addition to his pieces in The New Yorker, Updike has published short stories in Epiphany, Sargasso, Harper's, and The New York Times Magazine. He provided the photographs for his father's children's book, A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects. Updike has taught creative writing at M.I.T. and is a professor of English at Roxbury Community College. His wife, Wambui, is a native of Kenya, and they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Updike considers his literary career more similar to that of his grandmother, Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, than to his father's.