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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 ...
Dec 6, 2013 · I may be misreading the times, of course, and, at any rate, this is hardly uncommon (may Norman Mailer’s work continue to drift away). Still, when I first read “A & P,” John Updike was one of the most written-about living American novelists. In fact, “A & P” was the first thing I ever read by John Updike.
Apr 1, 2003 · 4.16. 1,741 ratings82 reviews. Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the Depression in a small Pennsylvania town. There follows tales of life away from home, student days, early marriage ...
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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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Jan 1, 2004 · by Thomas L. Jeffers. The Early Stories, 1953-1975. by John Updike. Knopf. 838 pp. $35.00. “There we all are and there we’ll all be forever,” sighs a mother overlooking a small Pennsylvania town in the mid-1940’s. Pausing, she adds: “Except you, Allen.
Apr 25, 2015 · Infidelity is the worst (and most common) of the dilemmas in which Updike’s protagonists are trapped. Updike boils it down into a wry self-parody in one of the pseudo-arithmetic questions set to the reader in “Problems”: “1. During the night, A, though sleeping with B, dreams of C…. He awakes troubled.
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His first book, The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures (1958), was a collection of poems. 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 ...
