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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 ...
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 collections of non ...
John Updike's death in January 2009 marked both the passing of an American literary giant and the end of an era in publishing. For more than 50 years, Updike's exclusive U.S. publisher was Knopf ...
“The Poorhouse Fair squarely addresses the selfsame that have continued to interest Updike throughout his career: the past as source of strength, the importance of religious faith, the primacy of the individual, and the essential emptiness that seems to be descending on the American spirit.” —Literary critic George J. Searles in The Poorhouse Fair: Updike’s Thesis Statement (1982) [9]
Apr. 14—BEVERLY — As a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, John Updike was a prominent figure in American literature. As a longtime resident of Beverly, he kept a lower profile.
The Early Stories: 1953–1975, published in 2003 by Knopf, is a John Updike book collecting much of his short stories written from the beginning of his writing career, when he was just 21, until 1975.
Updike remarked in an interview collected by the Poetry Foundation that "I began as a writer of light verse, and have tried to carry over into my serious or lyric verse something of the strictness and liveliness of the lesser form."
Allen, Mary. 1976. John Updike's Love of "Dull Bovine Beauty" from The Necessary Blankness: Women in Major American Fiction of the Sixties. from University of Illinois Press, 1976 in John Updike: Modern Critical Views, Harold Bloom, editor. pp. 69–95 ISBN 0-87754-717-3; Begley, Adam. 2014. Updike. Harpercollins Publishers, New York.