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David Updike is a writer, photographer, and Professor of English at Roxbury Community College in Boston, Massachusetts. He has written a collection of short stories, Out on the Marsh, (Godine, publisher) as well as six books for children, one of which, a Helpful Alphabet of Cheerful objects, features his own photographs. His essays and short stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, Doubletake, Newsweek, and the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Cambridge Massachusetts with his wife, Wambui, and his fifteen year old son, Wesley.