John Updike home to be preserved
The Associated Press
Posted: Aug 28, 2012 4:56 PM ET
Last Updated: Aug 28, 2012 4:54 PM ET
The childhood home of John Updike in Shillington, Pennysylvania, will be preserved as a museum. (The Reading Eagle/Associated Press)
John Updike's childhood home in Pennsylvania, has been purchased by a group that plans to restore it and turn it into a museum.
The John Updike Society bought the home in Shillington, about 80 km northwest of Philadelphia, for $180,000 US on Monday. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author lived there until he was 13.
The society hopes the house, dating from 1900, can be preserved and re-created how it would have looked in Updike's youth. The Reading Eagle reports organizers will seek donated materials for display.
Best known for his novels chronicling the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, Updike won Pulitzers for two of those stories, Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit at Rest. He died in 2009 at age 76.
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