John Updike Childhood Home

John Updike Childhood Home
John Updike Childhood Home
Location117 Philadelphia Ave, Shillington, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°18′08″N 75°57′54″W / 40.30222°N 75.96500°W / 40.30222; -75.96500
NRHP reference No.100003635
Added to NRHPApril 22, 2019

The John Updike Childhood Home is the childhood home of American novelist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Updike, who lived there with his father Wesley Russell Updike and mother Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, who was also a writer. The home is located in Shillington, Pennsylvania, a suburb of the City of Reading.