# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/linda-grace-hoyer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:25:48.808Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/linda-grace-hoyer"
name: "Linda Grace Hoyer"
slug: "linda-grace-hoyer"
description: "Linda Grace Hoyer Updike (1904–1989) was an American writer from Plowville, Pennsylvania. She was the mother of the writer John Updike and grandmother of the writer David Updike. Linda Updike also served as the model for several of her son's characters, including one of the main characters in the novel Of the Farm."
tagline: "1904-1989 , fiction writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Linda_Hoyer_Updike_yearbook_photo_mother_of_John_Updike.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1904-06-20"
deathDate: "1989-10-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.62
  momentum:             8.18181818181818
  historical:           2.405724
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Grace_Hoyer_Updike"
    title: "Linda Grace Hoyer Updike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%87%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1_%D8%A2%D9%BE%D8%AF%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "لیندا گریس هویر آپدایک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55721519"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations