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Updike’s last abode

Francis X. Rocca

John Updike was a writer who cared about religion, so it seems fitting to note his death here. Admirers of his work will find these images, of the hospice where he died, sad but irresistible, as we wonder how the master would have described his last surroundings. Maybe he left some last pages that will let us know.

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