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  1. John Updike

    John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as ...

  2. John Updike

    John Updike (born March 18, 1932, Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died January 27, 2009, Danvers, Massachusetts) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and poetry, known for his careful craftsmanship and realistic but subtle depiction of "American, Protestant, small-town, middle-class" life. Updike grew up in Shillington ...

  3. John Updike Biography

    Learn about the American author and poet John Updike, who wrote the "Rabbit" series and other novels, poems, and essays. Explore his early life, education, career, family, and death.

  4. Biography of John Updike, American Author

    Learn about the life and works of John Updike, one of the most acclaimed and prolific writers of the 20th century. Explore his novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and awards, from Rabbit Run to The Witches of Eastwick.

  5. John Updike

    John Updike (b. 1932-d. 2009) was an immensely versatile and prolific writer who produced more than sixty volumes, including novels, short stories, literary and art criticism, poems, children's books, a memoir, and a play. A distinguished "man of letters," Updike excelled at not simply one genre but three: the novel, short fiction, and ...

  6. John Updike, a Lyrical Writer of the Middle-Class Man, Dies at 76

    John Hoyer Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Reading, Pa., and grew up in the nearby town of Shillington. He was the only child of Wesley Russell Updike, a junior high school math teacher of ...

  7. About John Updike

    John Updike. 1932 -. 2009. Read poems by this poet. Poet, essayist, short-story writer, critic, and novelist John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, on March 18, 1932. His father taught high school math, and his mother wrote short stories and novels. Updike received his BA from Harvard University in 1954, the year he began to ...

  8. John Updike

    Author John Updike (born 1932) mirrored his America in poems, short stories, essays, and novels, especially the four-volume "Rabbit" series. John Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. His father, Wesley, was a high school mathematics teacher, the model for several sympathetic father figures in Updike's early works.

  9. John Updike Biography

    Biography. John Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania, the only child of Wesley and Linda Grace (Hoyer) Updike. His early years were spent in the Shillington home of his ...

  10. John Updike

    Books. John Updike: Fifteen Novels (five volumes) Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams. John Updike: Novels 1959-1965 LOA N°311. John Updike: Novels 1996-2000 LOA N°365. View all. Library of America. CURATOR. A champion of America's great writers and timeless works, Library of America guides readers in finding and exploring ...

  11. Biographer Explains How John Updike 'Captured America'

    Writing a biography of John Updike is a tricky thing: The acclaimed American writer of elegant essays and elegiac novels and short stories may have been a genius, but he was also disconcertingly ...

  12. John Updike

    2008. His pen rarely at rest, John Updike has been publishing fiction, essays, and poetry since the mid-fifties, when he was a staff writer at the New Yorker, contributing material for the "Talk of the Town" sections. "Of all modern American writers," writes Adam Gopnik in Humanities magazine, "Updike comes closest to meeting Virginia ...

  13. John Updike

    Learn about the life and career of John Updike, one of the most acclaimed American writers of his generation. Explore his achievements, awards, influences, and legacy through his own words and interviews.

  14. John Updike

    An acclaimed and award-winning writer of fiction, essays, and reviews, John Updike also wrote poetry for most of his life. Growing up in Pennsylvania, his early inspiration to be a writer came from watching his mother, an aspiring writer, submit her work to magazines. In an interview Updike stated, "I began as a writer of light verse, and ...

  15. Celebrating 30 Years Of 'Fresh Air': Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist

    Over the course of his decades-long career, Updike authored more than 25 novels, including the Rabbit series. He also penned short stories, poems, essays and a memoir. Originally broadcast in 1989.

  16. John Updike Biography

    John Updike was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century This biography of John Updike provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.

  17. John Updike: Tedious Suburbanite or Literary Great?

    John Updike was the greatest writer in English of the last century. Unquestionably, he was the best short story writer; I would argue the best novelist, certainly of the postwar years; one of the ...

  18. Imitation of Life

    During the Second World War, Updike's mother, Linda, worked in a parachute factory, and she managed to save enough money to buy back her father's eighty-three-acre farm, in Plowville, eleven ...

  19. John Updike Overview: A Biography Of John Updike

    John Updike (1923 - 2009) John Updike was a novelist, short story writer, and poet. He was also a literary and art critic. He published more than twenty novels, numerous short-story collections, eight volumes of poetry and many children's books. He is most famous for his ' Rabbit ' series - novels that chronicle the life of his ...

  20. John Updike bibliography

    John Updike bibliography. The following is the complete bibliography of John Updike (March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009), an American novelist, poet, critic and essayist noted for his prolific output over a 50-year period. His bibliography includes some 23 novels, 18 short story collections, 12 collections of poetry, 4 children's books, and 12 ...

  21. John Updike

    John Updike. National Humanities Medal. 2003. "My first paying job was at a newspaper," says John Updike. "But there's a lot of legwork, a sort of aggression you need to be a good journalist. Fiction gives more of a chance to use the poet in you. In one sense, fiction has always been a mongrel art. It has to be something else.

  22. Biographer Explains How John Updike 'Captured America'

    Writing a biography of John Updike is a tricky thing: The acclaimed American writer of elegant essays and elegiac novels and short stories may have been a genius, but he was also disconcertingly ...

  23. John Updike: A Critical Biography 1st Edition

    John Updike: A Critical Biography provides the first detailed examination of Updike's body of criticism, poetry, and journalism, and shows how that work played a central role in transforming his novels. The book disputes the common misperception of Updike as merely a chronicler of suburban, middle-class America by focusing on his novels and ...

  24. John Updike

    John Hoyer Updike (18. března 1932, Reading, Pensylvánie - 27. ledna 2009, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts) byl americký spisovatel, básník, literární a umělecký kritik a držitel Pulitzerovy ceny.. Osu Updikeova díla dnes nepopiratelně tvoří romány o „Králíkovi" (Králíku utíkej;Králík se vrací; Králík je bohatý; Králík odpočívá; a novela Králík ve ...

  25. John Updike

    John Hoyer Updike (Reading, 18 de març de 1932 - Danvers, 27 de gener de 2009) [1] va ser un important escriptor estatunidenc i autor de novel·les, relats curts, poesies, assajos i crítiques literàries, així com un llibre de memòries personals.. És un dels quatre escriptors que va guanyar el Premi Pulitzer d'obres de ficció més d'una vegada (els altres foren Booth Tarkington, William ...