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At Home; John Updike
Part of From the Vault.
07/28/1978
In this program we sit with John Updike in his study surrounded by mementos, private treasures, family pictures and his twenty books. Reading his own words on his boyhood, we see stills of Updike as a boy growing up in Pennsylvania, Harvard, family, colleagues, and relaxing. He tells marvelous stories of learning the art of pratfalls to become socially acceptable at Harvard, secretly wishing to be a cartoonist, working at the New Yorker, developing the very disciplined work habits which allow him to produce a book a year. We hear him, now married to his second wife, reflect on the vicissitudes of life, fidelity, and marriage. He talks of family, and we see him play basketball with his three stepsons.
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- Series
- At Home
- Program
- John Updike
- Program Number
101
- Series Description
Broadcast Sundays beginning August 6, 1978.
Beginning August 6th, a series of informal, very personal visits with six formidable, very personable Bay State residents. Journalist China Altman is the host of the series. Series release date: 8/6/1978
- Program Description
In this program we sit with him in his library / study surrounded by mementos, private treasures, family pictures and his twenty books. Reading his own words on his boyhood, we see stills of Updike as a boy growing up in Pennsylvania, Harvard, family, colleagues, and relaxing. He tells marvelous stories of learning the art of pratfalls to become socially acceptable at Harvard, secretly wishing to be a cartoonist, working at the New Yorker, developing the very disciplined work habits which allow him to produce a book a year. We hear him, now married to his second wife, reflect on the vicissitudes of life, fidelity, and marriage. He talks of family, and we see him play basketball with his three stepsons.
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1954
- Authors' spouses--United States
- Gender identity--United States--Psychological aspects
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--New England
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Appreciation
- Updike, John
- Authors, American--20th century--Interviews
- Filmed literary readings
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Biography
- Creators
- Debarger, David (Director)
- Eaton, Rebecca (Producer)
- Contributors
- Altman, China (Interviewer)
- Updike, John (Interviewee)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “At Home; John Updike,” 07/28/1978, GBH Archives, accessed April 16, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_60BEB04C3EF141E0B0B3E6E2B4668EAC.
- MLA: “At Home; John Updike.” 07/28/1978. GBH Archives. Web. April 16, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_60BEB04C3EF141E0B0B3E6E2B4668EAC>.
- APA: At Home; John Updike. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_60BEB04C3EF141E0B0B3E6E2B4668EAC