User talk:Writer GBM

In the Wiki pages for each of John Updike's books in the Rabbit series, the city is described but none of the pages identifies the city Updike based his novel on. In "Rabbit, Run" the fiction city is named as " Mount Judge, a suburb of Brewer, Pennsylvania" In the page for "Rabbit Redux" it is described as " the declining and fictional city of Brewer, Pennsylvania." On the page for "Rabbit is Rich" he is described as relocating from "Brewer, Pennsylvania, the poor, fictional city of his birth." Anyone who lives in Reading, Pennsylvania (60 miles northeast of Philadelphia) instantly recognizes that Brewer is Reading. Updike goes into some detail in "Rabbit, Run" and from the description you could draw an accurate map Reading and the surrounding suburbs of Hyde Park, Laureldale, and Temple. He directly refers to Reading High School as the "Castle on the Hill" and the suburbs of Reading also have a corresponding "Castle in the Cornfield" a school built in 1958. Reading High. "Mount Judge" fairly echoes the existing "Mount Penn." There are enough references in the first book in the series to undoubtedly identify Reading, a city of about 110,000 at the time of the writing of the book.

A clincher is that Updike grew up in Shillington, another suburb of Reading. That is documented on his Wiki biographical page. Nearly everyone, not born in their home in that area was born in either Reading Hospital or St. Joseph's hospital so they are cited as being "born in Reading." Everyone born when he was Writer GBM (talk) 20:36, 7 March 2017 (UTC)