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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 ...
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.
“‘Pigeon Feathers’ demonstrates a masterful command of language and technique. In only his second collection, Updike is sufficiently comfortable with the short story form to experiment with a variety of narrative strategies, especially variations on first-person narration such as the epistolary story, the lyrical meditation, and the [literary] montage...the lyrical meditation is ...
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 Afterlife and Other Stories is a collection of 22 works of short fiction and a novella by John Updike.The volume was published in 1994 by Alfred A. Knopf. [1] [2] [3]The short story "The Sandstone Farmhouse" included in the collection won First Prize at the O. Henry Award competition in 1991.
David Duchovny's Touching Poem After His Dog's Passing Is a Tear-Jerker. Diana Logan. May 31, 2024 at 3:19 PM ... Related: Halsey Announces the Sudden Death of Her Dog Jagger in Gut-Wrenching ...
“For all the novels, the stories, the journalism, essays, poetry, wit and wisdom, his understanding of the US and of life, readers can only thank him. John Updike has taken his final bow with a swan song worthy of his genius.” —Literary critic Eileen Battersby from “The Master Takes a Final Bow” in The Irish Times, June 20, 2009.</ref>
“The door as a metaphor of communication is physically or figuratively present in all of the stories of the collection. It can function literally [or] it can be the symbolic door between husband and wife, between old friends, or between chance acquaintances…The image of the door, a familiar object of everyday life, is fitting and effective for Updike’s purpose: to show that the formative ...