Linda Grace Hoyer Updike

[1] Her parents sold their farm in 1921 and moved a large house in the nearby town of Shillington, Pennsylvania.

[2] Updike graduated from Keystone Normal School (now Kutztown University), and in 1923, at age 19, from Ursinus College, where she played field hockey.

in English literature from Cornell University, where she wrote a thesis on Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor.

[11] Her manuscript of a historical novel about Ponce De Leon remains unpublished as of 2022, despite being her magnum opus, which she worked on for many years.

[12] Updike died at her farm in Plowville in 1989 and was buried at Robeson Lutheran Church Cemetery.