Wesley Updike

Wesley Updike served as a prominent model for many main characters his son's works, including as the central character in The Centaur (1963), which won the National Book Award for Fiction, and Updike's family history is broadly paralleled in In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996).

Hartley Titus Updike, a Princeton educated Presbyterian minister, who suffered employment difficulties due to a throat ailment.

During World War I Wesley Updike served as a private in the Student Army Training Corps from October 30, 1918, until December 13, 1918.

[2] Wesley Updike enrolled at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania in 1919 on a football scholarship and was a chemical-biological major.

Updike died April 16, 1972, in Reading, Pennsylvania, and was buried in the Robeson Lutheran Church Cemetery.