| 1959: Information From Answers.com (5175 words) |
 | Updike's first novel is set in an imagined world of the 1970s and concerns a revolt by the elderly in an old folk's home against an administration that denies their human needs. |
| A graduate of Oxford University who received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Brown was a professor of languages, classics, and comparative literature at Wesleyan University, the University of Rochester, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. |
| 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. |
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