and - Linda Grace Hoyer - The New Yorker Magazine

And who is Linda Grace Hoyer? - why John Updike's mother. I've just printed out three of her stories from the New Yorker magazine, published in 1966, 1969 and 1983, so within the working writing life of John Updike. They stand up well though. What's strange is how they describe the same farm / small holding that John Updike describes in The Centaur, the atmosphere is so much the same - in a good way, not in a copying sort of way. The stories are all based on a woman Belle's childhood and then her relationship with her husband, George and they are beautifully paced with dialogue and image.