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John Updike From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search John Updike John Updike (left), receiving the National Medal of Arts from President and Mrs. George H. W. Bush 17 November Born March 18 Shillington, Pennsylvania PA U.S.A. ... Occupation Novelist, short story writer, critic Genres Modernist literature Influences Fyodor Dostoyevsky Henry Green James Joyce Franz Kafka ... James Thurber John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 in Shillington, Pennsylvania ) is an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ( Rabbit, Run Rabbit Redux Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit At Rest ; and Rabbit Remembered Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest both won Pulitzer Prizes for Updike. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class ," Updike is well known for his careful craftsmanship and prolific writing, having published 22 novels and more than a dozen short story collections as well as poetry literary criticism and children's books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems have appeared in The New Yorker since the 1950s. Contents Early life Criticism Literary works Rabbit novels ... Non-fiction, essays and criticism

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Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne John (Hoyer) Updike (1932-) American novelist, short story writer and poet, internationally known for his novels RABBIT, RUN (1960), RABBIT REDUX (1971), RABBIT IS RICH (1981), and RABBIT AT REST (1990). They follow the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a star athlete, from his youth through the social and sexual upheavals of the 1960s, to later periods of his life, and to final decline. Updike's oeuvre has been large, consisting of novels, collections of poems, short stories, and essays. He has written a great deal of literary criticism. Among the writers whose works he has reviewed are such names as Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, Joyce Carol Oates, Iris Murdoch, Michael Tournier, Raymond Queneau, Umberto Eco, Milan Kundera, Evgenii Evtushenko, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Isabel Allende. "The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the soul's very life." (from Assorted Prose John Updike was born in Reading in Pennsylvania, but until he was 13 he lived in Shillington, a smaller city near Reading, and then he moved away to Plowville, PA. Updike's childhood was shadowed by psoriasis and stammering, but his mother encouraged him to write. In his childhood Updike lived in an isolated farm. Escaping to the world of mystery novels, he consumed books by Erle Stanley Gardner, Ellery Queen, Agatha Christie, and John Dickson Carr. A lot of his early reading was English. "I'm almost an English novelist manqué," Updike said later. However, dead authors depressed him. After high school in Shillington, where his father worked as a science teacher, Updike attended Harvard - Updike chose the university because it was the location of the world's oldest humor magazine, the Harvard

3. American Literature Web Resources: John Updike John Updike is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. He has written many novels, collections of poems, short stories, and essays. http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/chronology/updikebio.html

American Literature Web Resources: John Updike JOHN (HOYER) UPDIKE (1932- ) Compiled By: Amy Hannon Chronology 1932 John Hoyer Updike was born on March 18 in Reading, PA 1936 Began attending public schools in Shillington (until 1950) 1945 Moves with his parents and grandparents to a farmhouse near Plowville, PA 1950 Graduates president and co-valedictorian of his senior class During the following three summers he works as a copy boy for the Reading Eagle Entered Harvard in the Fall Begins drawing for the Harvard Lampoon, a humor magazine 1953 Marries Mary E. Pennington Elected president of Harvard Lampoon Majors in English 1954 Graduates summa cum laude from Harvard Enrolls in the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts at Oxford University Meets E.B. and Katherine White and is offered a staff position at The New Yorker 1955 Daughter Elizabeth is born April 1 Returns from England and joins The New Yorker as a staff writer 1957 Son David is born January 19 Leaves The New Yorker 1959 Son Michael is born May 14 The Poorhouse Fair and The Same Door were published 1960 Daughter Miranda is born December 15 Rabbit, Run is published

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John Updike From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search John Updike (born 18 March ) is an American novelist, poet, critic, and short story writer. Contents Sourced The Centaur (1963) Couples (1968) Rabbit Redux (1969) ... edit Sourced The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea … the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices. On London, in “A Madman,” New Yorker (December 22, 1962) If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. “A Foreword for Younger Readers,” Assorted Prose A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. “Confessions of a Wild Bore,” Assorted Prose The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. On J. D. Salinger

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Davidson Distinguished Lecture Series Request Tickets STAYING CONNECTED WAYS OF GIVING ... ABOUT US John Updike American Author Topic: "Wide Open Spaces" John Updike has become one of the most successful American writers. As an essayist Updike is a gentle satirist, poking fun at American life and customs, without mean-spirited nihilism. He observes the ordinary life he sees around him, and frequently asks the reader to recognize and reconsider one's preconceptions. The majority of Updike's nonfiction has been occasional, and he considers the opportunity to produce reviews educational for himself, 'for writing educates the writer as it goes along.' Or: 'My purpose in reading has ever secretly been not to come and judge but to come and steal.' Updike is internationally known for his novels Rabbit, Run Rabbit Redux Rabbit is Rich , and Rabbit at Rest . They follow the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a star athlete, from his youth through the social and sexual upheavals of the 1960s, to later periods of his life, and to final decline. Updike's oeuvre has been large, consisting of novels, collections of poems, short stories, and essays. His most recent work

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8. Literary Encyclopedia: John Updike John Hoyer Updike was born on March 18, 1932 in Reading, PA, a midsized manufacturing town located in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country. http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4502

9. Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: John Updike 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 http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-updike-john.asp

var gDcsId = "dcs30w0vc10000chxa0maatv9_2u6z"; Click here to find more John Updike on Audible.com Books by John Updike TERRORIST VILLAGES LICKS OF LOVE: Short Stories and a Sequel, Rabbit Remembered A CHILD'S CALENDAR John Updike BIO 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 more than fifty 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. - Over his long and distinguished writing career, John Updike has received numerous awards and literary prizes. Among them: - The National Book Award for THE CENTAUR - Three National Book Critics Circle Awards: for HUGGING THE SHORES, RABBIT IS RICH, and RABBIT AT REST.

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Literature Guides Criticism/Essays Biographies Research Anything: All BookRags Literature Guides Essays Criticism Biographies Encyclopedias History Encyclopedias Films Periodic Table ... Amazon.com John Updike Summary Order the John Updike Summary Pack View 1 John Updike Essays View 48 John Updike Critical Essays John Updike About 610 pages (182,900 words) in 59 products "John Updike" Search Results Contents: Biographies Works by Author Summaries Reference Criticism Biography Name: John Updike Birth Date: March 18, 1932 Place of Birth: Shillington, Pennsylvania, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: author, poet summary from source: Biography of John Updike 1,607 words, approx. 5 pages Author John Updike (born 1932) mirrored his America in poems, short stories, essays, and novels, especially the four-volume "Rabbit" series. John Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. His father, Wesley, was a high school... summary from source: Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike 19,205 words, approx. 64 pages [This entry was updated by Donald J. Greiner (University of South Carolina) from his entry in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 250-276.] A reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John...

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13. John Updike John Updike is always caught in the middle. Fortunately, that’s how he likes it. By his own admission, Updike has dedicated his career to depicting http://www.enotes.com/authors/john-updike

Welcome, guest! Login Join eNotes Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Literature Science History Business ... John Updike John Updike Introduction John Updike John Updike is always caught in the middle. Fortunately, that’s how he likes it. By his own admission, Updike has dedicated his career to depicting middle-class people in small-town America. A New England native, Updike’s dissection of Yankee wasps earned him early success and numerous literary awards. Later in life, Updike experimented outside that comfort zone, yielding mixed results and responses. These later works often take well-known stories and reinvent them or retell them from a new perspective. At its best, Updike’s writing celebrates America, even as it depicts the complexities of human relationships. In lesser efforts, Updike has been criticized as indulgent and simplistically self-satisfied. Still, his impressive body of work contains fiction and nonfiction, prose and poetry, short and long form, and children’s stories as well as grown-up sagas. Essential Facts Updike’s depiction of small-town America took a whimsical turn in his novel The Witches of Eastwick , later adapted as a film, a short-lived TV show, and a stage musical.

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THE CENTAURIAN A Private Non-Commercial Academic Literary Website The Centaurian Website was created online 15 November 1996 Our 12th Year Online A JOHN UPDIKE WEBSITE FOR INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION The Website "Hit" Was Recorded Thursday, 22 February 2007 Last update 22 January Scroll Down to the BULLETIN BOARD Below on this Opening Page for Current Topics, Issues of Timely Interest, and Fresh News Items "American arts and letters have been blessed with few great generalist critics over the years, and fewer still have written novels. The most obvious example, Edmund Wilson, wasn't much of a novelist. The other fellow who comes to mind, Henry James, wasn't much of an American. In this regard, John Updike stands as America's great man of letters of the past century." Book Reviews, Due Considerations , 21 January 2008 at http://bookreviews101.com/article.asp?articleid=25321 A Helpful British Updike Website Featuring Cover Photos of All His Books and Other Incidentals Go to What's New in Updikiana: Information and Resources Updike In Dallas January 10: "A modest John Updike enchants Nasher Salon crowd" An Ode to Updike's Mode: The NYTimes On Updike's "Outage,"

15. Life & Times: John Updike Reviews of the author s books published up to 1997, texts of articles by him and audio files of interviews and readings. http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/06/lifetimes/updike.html

The writing of John Updike (1932 ) transports readers to "Rabbit" Angstrom's suburbia, to the imaginary State of Kush, and to a range of lyrically detailed places in between. A novelist, short-story writer, poet and critic, Updike is, to borrow a phrase he has used about others, "one of the chief glories of postwar American literature." From Updike on Updike PLUS: Updike Completes a Sequel to 'Rabbit, Run' Golf Updike's Latest Novel, 'Bech' Sequel, Draws on Himself The Origin of the Universe, Time and John Updike ... In 'S.,' Updike Tries The Woman's Viewpoint BY JOHN UPDIKE: My Reading as a Child Writer's Opinions on Vietnam , A Letter to the Editor Writers I Have Met Bech Interviews Updike Golf A Few Words in Defense of the Amateur Reader From a review of The Poorhouse Fair From Updike's review of E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan PLUS REVIEWS OF: The Poorhouse Fair (Jan. 11, 1959) The Poorhouse Fair (Jan. 12, 1959) Pigeon Feathers (Mar. 18, 1962) Pigeon Feathers (Mar. 24, 1962) Telephone Poles and Other Poems The Centaur Couples Bech: A Book ... Rabbit is Rich , reviewed by John Leonard Bech is Back , reviewed by Edward Hoagland Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism The Witches of Eastwick , reviewed by Margaret Atwood Facing Nature: Poems Roger's Version Trust Me: Short Stories Just Looking: Essays on Art ... Rabbit At Rest , reviewed by Joyce Carol Oates Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism , reviewed by Martin Amis Memories of the Ford Administration The Afterlife and Other Stories Brazil , reviewed by Barbara Kingsolver

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The Arts Business Public Service Sports ... Academy Careers Select Career Actor Aerospace Engineer Animator Architect Art Curator Artist Astronaut Astronomer Athlete Aviator Ballerina Basketball Coach Basketball Player Beekeeper Biographer Broadcast Journalist Cartoonist Chemist Choreographer Dancer Director Dog Sledder Entrepreneur Ethnobotanist Explorer Farmer Figure Skater Film Producer Filmmaker Financier Geneticist Historian Investment Banker Journalist Lawyer Marine Biologist Medical Researcher Mountaineer Molecular Biologist Military/Soldier Museum Director Musician Novelist Painter Pastor Philanthropist Physicist Pilot Poet Politician Record Producer Scientist Screenwriter Singer Surgeon/Medical Doctor Teacher Theatrical Director Writer If you like John Updike's story, you might also like: John Grisham Norman Mailer James Michener and Joyce Carol Oates John Updike's recommended reading: The Waste Land Related Links: Updike Home Page Pulitzer Prizes The Academy of American Poets Our Most Viewed Honorees: Maya Angelou Benazir Bhutto Johnny Cash Benjamin Carson ... Add RSS Feeds Select Achiever Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

17. John Updike Poet, essayist, shortstory writer, and novelist john updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, on March 18, 1932. His father taught high school math, http://www.poets.org/jupdi/

18. JOYCE CAROL OATES: ON JOHN UPDIKE Includes the article john updike s American Comedies and a review of Rabbit at Rest. http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/onupdike.html

JU Visit John Updike on the web JCO John Updike's American Comedies . . . A writer who shares Updike's extreme interest in the visual world as well as his obsession with language is Joseph Conrad who, significantly, could imagine the ideal and the real only as hopelessly separate: when the "ideal" is given historical freedom to experience itself in flesh, in action, we have the tragicomedy of Nostromo, more... John Updike's Rabbit at Rest John Updike's choice of Rabbit Angstrom, in Rabbit, Run more... Revised Wed, Jun 11, 2003

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Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author John Updike (1932 - ) US author [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 5 of 5 total Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. John Updike Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. John Updike - More quotations on: [ Dreams We are most alive when we're in love. John Updike A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. John Updike Assorted Prose (1965) - More quotations on: [ Boredom America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. John Updike Problems and Other Stories - More quotations on: [ America 4 Quotations in other collections Search for John Updike at Amazon.com Showing quotations 1 to 5 of 5 total Previous Author: Unknown Next Author: Carlos A. Urbizo Return to Author List Browse our complete list of 3141 authors by last name: A B C D ... Z (c) 1994-2007 QuotationsPage.com and

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