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(John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of fifty-odd books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal.
John Updike died Tuesday, January 27th 2009 at age 76.
Genres: Literary Fiction, Fantasy
Series
Harry Rabbit Angstrom
1. Rabbit Run (1960)
2. Rabbit Redux (1971)
3. Rabbit Is Rich (1981)
4. Rabbit at Rest (1990)
A Rabbit Omnibus (2001)
1. Rabbit Run (1960)
2. Rabbit Redux (1971)
3. Rabbit Is Rich (1981)
4. Rabbit at Rest (1990)
A Rabbit Omnibus (2001)
Henry Bech
Bech (1970)
Bech Is Back (1982)
The Complete Henry Bech (1992)
Bech At Bay (1998)
Basic Bech (1999)
Bech (1970)
Bech Is Back (1982)
The Complete Henry Bech (1992)
Bech At Bay (1998)
Basic Bech (1999)
Novels
The Poorhouse Fair (1959)
The Centaur (1963)
Of the Farm (1965)
Couples (1968)
A Month of Sundays (1975)
Marry Me (1976)
The Coup (1978)
Your Lover Just Called (1980)
Roger's Version (1986)
More Stately Mansions (1987)
S (1988)
Memories of the Ford Administration (1992)
Brazil (1994)
In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996)
Toward the End of Time (1997)
The Women Who Got Away (1998)
Gertrude and Claudius (2000)
Seek My Face (2002)
Villages (2004)
Terrorist (2006)
The Centaur (1963)
Of the Farm (1965)
Couples (1968)
A Month of Sundays (1975)
Marry Me (1976)
The Coup (1978)
Your Lover Just Called (1980)
Roger's Version (1986)
More Stately Mansions (1987)
S (1988)
Memories of the Ford Administration (1992)
Brazil (1994)
In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996)
Toward the End of Time (1997)
The Women Who Got Away (1998)
Gertrude and Claudius (2000)
Seek My Face (2002)
Villages (2004)
Terrorist (2006)
Omnibus
American Contemporaries (2010) (with Joan Didion, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison and Richard Yates)
Novels, 1959-1965 (2018)
Novels, 1968-1975 (2020)
Novels, 1959-1965 (2018)
Novels, 1968-1975 (2020)
Collections
Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures (1958)
Hoping for a Hoopoe (poems) (1959)
The Same Door (1959)
Pigeon Feathers (1962)
Telephone Poles (poems) (1963)
Olinger Stories (1964)
Assorted Prose (1965)
The Music School (1966)
Midpoint and Other Poems (poems) (1969)
Seventy Poems (poems) (1972)
Museums and Women (1972)
Six Poems (poems) (1973)
Tossing and Turning (poems) (1977)
An Oddly Lovely Day Alone (poems) (1979)
Problems and Other Stories (1979)
The Other John Updike (1981)
Facing Nature (poems) (1985)
Trust Me (1987)
The Afterlife (1987)
Forty Stories (1987)
Selected Stories (1988)
A Child's Calendar (poems) (1989)
In Memoriam, Felis Felis (poems) (1989)
Collected Poems 1953-1993 (1993)
Deadly Sins (1994) (with Antonia S Byatt, Mary Gordon, Richard Howard, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, William Trevor and Gore Vidal)
Friends from Philadelphia (1995)
A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects (poems) (1998)
Licks of Love (2000)
Americana (poems) (2001)
The Early Stories: 1953-1975 (2003)
Three Trips (2005)
Poolside (2007) (with Alice Adams, Amy Bloom, John Cheever, Ernest Hemingway, A M Homes, Andrea Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Julie Orringer, James Purdy, Graham Swift, David Foster Wallace and Fay Weldon)
Endpoint and Other Poems (2009)
My Father's Tears (2009)
Rich in Russia (2011)
John Updike: Collected Early Stories (2013)
John Updike: Collected Later Stories (2013)
John Updike: The Collected Stories (2013)
Hoping for a Hoopoe (poems) (1959)
The Same Door (1959)
Pigeon Feathers (1962)
Telephone Poles (poems) (1963)
Olinger Stories (1964)
Assorted Prose (1965)
The Music School (1966)
Midpoint and Other Poems (poems) (1969)
Seventy Poems (poems) (1972)
Museums and Women (1972)
Six Poems (poems) (1973)
Tossing and Turning (poems) (1977)
An Oddly Lovely Day Alone (poems) (1979)
Problems and Other Stories (1979)
The Other John Updike (1981)
Facing Nature (poems) (1985)
Trust Me (1987)
The Afterlife (1987)
Forty Stories (1987)
Selected Stories (1988)
A Child's Calendar (poems) (1989)
In Memoriam, Felis Felis (poems) (1989)
Collected Poems 1953-1993 (1993)
Deadly Sins (1994) (with Antonia S Byatt, Mary Gordon, Richard Howard, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, William Trevor and Gore Vidal)
Friends from Philadelphia (1995)
A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects (poems) (1998)
Licks of Love (2000)
Americana (poems) (2001)
The Early Stories: 1953-1975 (2003)
Three Trips (2005)
Poolside (2007) (with Alice Adams, Amy Bloom, John Cheever, Ernest Hemingway, A M Homes, Andrea Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Julie Orringer, James Purdy, Graham Swift, David Foster Wallace and Fay Weldon)
Endpoint and Other Poems (2009)
My Father's Tears (2009)
Rich in Russia (2011)
John Updike: Collected Early Stories (2013)
John Updike: Collected Later Stories (2013)
John Updike: The Collected Stories (2013)
Chapbooks
Plays
Picture Books
Novellas
Series contributed to
Best American Short Stories
The Best American Short Stories 1984 (1984) (with Shannon Ravenel)
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2008) (with Katrina Kenison)
The Best American Short Stories 1984 (1984) (with Shannon Ravenel)
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2008) (with Katrina Kenison)
Non fiction
Pens and Needles (1970) (with David Levine)
Picked Up Pieces (1975)
Talk from the Fifties (1979)
People One Knows (1980)
Hugging the Shore (1983)
Self Consciousness (1989)
Just Looking (1989)
Odd Jobs (1991)
Golf Dreams (1996)
More Matter (1999)
On Literary Biography (1999)
Humor in Fiction (2000)
A Century of Arts and Letters (2002)
Still Looking (2005)
Due Considerations (2007)
Higher Gossip (2011)
Always Looking (2012)
Picked Up Pieces (1975)
Talk from the Fifties (1979)
People One Knows (1980)
Hugging the Shore (1983)
Self Consciousness (1989)
Just Looking (1989)
Odd Jobs (1991)
Golf Dreams (1996)
More Matter (1999)
On Literary Biography (1999)
Humor in Fiction (2000)
A Century of Arts and Letters (2002)
Still Looking (2005)
Due Considerations (2007)
Higher Gossip (2011)
Always Looking (2012)
Anthologies containing stories by John Updike
Short stories
| A and P [short story] (1962) | |||
| Jesus on Honshu (1987) |
Awards
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Books about John Updike
John Updike recommends
The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922)
(Oldest Member)
P G Wodehouse
"It was P.G. Wodehouse... who brought me resoundingly into the imaginary world of golf - his wonderful, comical golf stories."
A Garden of Earthly Delights (1966)
(Wonderland Quartet, book 1)
Joyce Carol Oates
"If the phrase 'woman of letters' existed, she would be, foremost in this country, entitled to it."
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (1978)
Bruno Schulz
"Astonishing stories by one of The great writers... His verbal art strikes us - stuns us even - with its overload of beauty."
The Beginning Place (1980)
Ursula K Le Guin
"Excitingly told...elegant parable. Mrs Le Guin is a magisterial imaginer."
The Collected Stories of John O'Hara (1985)
John O'Hara
"O'Hara's best are among the twentieth century's best... maybe we can settle down and marvel at him all over again."
Skin (1997)
Catherine Hiller
"Catherine Hiller writes with a fine directness... Good, brave and joyful writing."
The Music at Long Verney (2000)
Sylvia Townsend Warner
"On every page there is something to be seen or smelled or felt. . . Beneath her refined witchery lies a strange freshness one can only call, in praise, primitive."
The Confessions of Max Tivoli (2004)
Andrew Sean Greer
"Resplendently poetic and loftily sorrowing... [Max's] awry existence, set out with such a wealth of verbal flourishes and gilded touches, serves as a heightened version of the strangeness, the muted disharmony, of being human."
Dreams in a Time of War (2010)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
"In his crowded career and his eventful life, Ngũgĩ has enacted, for all to see, the paradigmatic trials and quandaries of a contemporary African writer caught in sometimes implacable political, social, racial, and linguistic currents."
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