Ocupation: Novelist
Life: March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009
Birthday: March 18
Death: January 27
Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.
source: John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.250, Random House
topic: Doe, Needs, Looks, April Fools Day