It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
—John Updike in My Father’s Tears and Other Stories
About 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 Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more...