Updike (79 page)

The happy family in September 1966, posing for
Life
in the living room of the Polly Dole House.

A favorite party trick demonstrated for the
Life
photographer.

Sunday volleyball with the Ipswich gang, circa 1967.

Doubles with Mary in the late sixties.

“That’s
it
!” Practicing barefoot on Martha’s Vineyard in the early seventies.

With Mary in Addis Ababa in February 1973, at the end of the African lecture tour.

With Bill Luers in Caracas in January 1981.

Newly inducted into the Celebrity Walk of Fame in Fargo, North Dakota, on October 11, 1989. Though he didn’t yet know it, his mother had died the day before.

With his younger son, Michael, and two grandchildren, Trevor and Sawyer.

With Elizabeth’s two sons, Anoff and Kwame Cobblah.

With Martha in December 1998.

With Ian McEwan, flanking Henry Thoreau’s grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, in November 2006.

Michael Updike securing the headstone in Plow Cemetery. The poem carved on the back was written in Plowville when the author was a very young man.

About the Author

ADAM BEGLEY
was the books editor for
The New York Observer
from 1996 to 2009. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center. His writing has appeared in
The New York Times
, the
Los Angeles Times
, the
Chicago Tribune, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian
, the
London Review of Books
, and many other publications. He lives in England.

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