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Updike’s career as a writer has been remarkably prolific and varied. In addition to poetry, his work included novels ( The Witches of Eastwick , Rabbit Redux , and Rabbit, Run ), short stories, music criticism ( Concerts at Castle Hill ), and essays on art ( Just Looking: Essays on Art ) and golf ( Golf Dreams: Writing on Golf ).
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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 ...
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Apr 27, 2016 · Posterity. In his Preface to Due Considerations (2007), John Updike tells us that when he was a very young man, he yearned to become a professional writer so that his ideas might join the “printed material that hung above the middle-browed middle class in the middle of the last century like a vast cloud gently raining ink” (DC xvii).
Oct 15, 2015 · John Updike’s Selected Poems is 320 pages and cloth bound, with notes on each poem detailing completion date, publication history, and relevant annotations (“Dog’s Death” includes the name of the dog and a remark from Updike about pet deaths). The suggested retail price is $30, but it’s selling for $18.51 at Amazon. —James Plath.
Jun 13, 2012 · But how did Updike, the boy from rural Pennsylvania, become Updike the international literary icon? Part of the answer, no doubt, is captive inside the John Updike Archive at Harvard’s Houghton Library, in the drafts, drawings, letters, reviews, photos, books, and miscellania acquired from his estate in 2009. (The writer himself, in prior ...
May 10, 2014 · 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 ...
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physics and subparticle existence, the myths of ancient Ireland and contemporary America. He posts his directional signs clearly. Those who follow his suggestions come away doubly enriched. In addition to being a distinguished novelist, Updike has proved to be one of the most industrious, and diverse, authors of our time.
