John Updike (1932–2009)
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American novelist, poet, and critic John Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on March 18, 1932. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard University, which he attended on a scholarship, in 1954. After graduation, he accepted a one-year fellowship to study painting at the Ruskin School of Drawing vis mere and Fine Art in Oxford, England. After returning from England in 1955, he worked for two years on the staff of The New Yorker. This marked the beginning of a long relationship with the magazine, during which he has contributed numerous short stories, poems, and book reviews. Although Updike's first published book was a collection of verse, The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures (1958), his renown as a writer is based on his fiction, beginning with The Poorhouse Fair (1959). During his lifetime, he wrote more than 50 books and primarily focused on middle-class America and their major concerns---marriage, divorce, religion, materialism, and sex. Among his best-known works are the Rabbit tetrology---Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1988). Rabbit, Run introduces Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom as a 26-year-old salesman of dime-store gadgets trapped in an unhappy marriage in a dismal Pennsylvania town, looking back wistfully on his days as a high school basketball star. Rabbit Redux takes up the story 10 years later, and Rabbit's relationship with representative figures of the 1960s enables Updike to provide social commentary in a story marked by mellow wisdom and compassion in spite of some shocking jolts. In Rabbit Is Rich, Harry is comfortably middle-aged and complacent, and much of the book seems to satirize the country-club set and the swinging sexual/social life of Rabbit and his friends. Finally, in Rabbit at Rest, Harry arrives at the age where he must confront his mortality. Updike won the Pulitzer Prize for both Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit at Rest. Updike's other novels range widely in subject and locale, from The Poorhouse Fair, about a home for the aged that seems to be a microcosm for society as a whole, through The Court (1978), about a revolution in Africa, to The Witches of Eastwick (1984), in which Updike tries to write from inside the sensibilities of three witches in contemporary New England. The Centaur (1963) is a subtle, complicated allegorical novel that won Updike the National Book Award in 1964. In addition to his novels, Updike also has written short stories, poems, critical essays, and reviews. Self-Consciousness (1989) is a memoir of his early life, his thoughts on issues such as the Vietnam War, and his attitude toward religion. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. He died of lung cancer on January 27, 2009 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. Since 1957 he has lived in Massachusetts. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, & the Howells Medal. (Publisher Provided) John Updike was born in 1932 and attended Harvard College and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, England. Form 1955 to 1957 he was a staff member of The New Yorker, which he contributed numerous writings. Updike's art criticism has appeared in publications including Arts and Antiques, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, and Realites, among many others. He is the author of such best-selling novels as Rabbit Run and Rabbit is Rich. His many works of fiction, poetry and criticism have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. For the past 40 years he has lived in Massachusetts. (Publisher Provided) John Updike is the author of some 50 books, including collections of short stories, poems, & criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, & the Howells Medal. Born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932, he has lived in Massachusetts since 1957. (Publisher Provided) vis mindre
Image credit: "John Updike Laughing at Crane Beach" credit: Dennis Stock
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The Complete Henry Bech: Twenty Stories: Bech: A Book; Bech Is Back; Bech at Bay; His Oeuvre (2001) 213 eksemplarer
John Updike: Novels 1959-1965 (LOA #311): The Poorhouse Fair / Rabbit, Run / The Centaur / Of the Farm (Library of… (2018) 70 eksemplarer
John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (LOA #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick (Library of America) (2021) 40 eksemplarer
John Updike: Novels 1986-1990 (Loa #354): Roger's Version / Rabbit at Rest (Library of America, 354) (2022) 25 eksemplarer
John Updike: Novels 1996–2000 (LOA #365): In the Beauty of the Lilies / Gertrude and Claudius / Rabbit Remembered… (2023) 19 eksemplarer
Seek My Face 11 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (abridged audio) vol. 1 (1999) — Redaktør — 10 eksemplarer
American Masters: The Short Stories of Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and John Updike (1998) 10 eksemplarer
The Diaries of Adam and Eve 7 eksemplarer
The Chaste Planet [short fiction] 7 eksemplarer
Ilyen boldog se voltam elbeszélések 6 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (abridged audio) Vol. 2 (1999) — Redaktør — 5 eksemplarer
Des musees et des femmes: et autres nouvelles 4 eksemplarer
Christmas Cards 4 eksemplarer
John Updike's Rabbit Series, 3 Books: Rabbit Redux / Rabbit at Rest / Rabbit Is Rich (1990) 3 eksemplarer
Of prizes and print: Remarks delivered on the occasion of his receiving the 1998 National Book Foundation medal for… (1998) 3 eksemplarer
Six Poems 3 eksemplarer
Warm Wine 3 eksemplarer
Centennial portfolio : fifty original prints by members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in celebration of… (1998) 3 eksemplarer
Flying to Florida 2 eksemplarer
The Beauty of The Lilies 2 eksemplarer
A Good Place 2 eksemplarer
Parit 2 eksemplarer
A&P: A Short Story from The John Updike Audio Collection 2 eksemplarer
Haren Återställd 2 eksemplarer
Haren Är Rik 2 eksemplarer
Three Texts from Early Ipswich 2 eksemplarer
The Indian 2 eksemplarer
Pigeon Feather and Other Stories 1 eksemplar
Mogli delicate (in Le lacrime di mio padre) 1 eksemplar
Marocco (in Le lacrime di mio padre) 1 eksemplar
Luce blu (in Le lacrime di mio padre) 1 eksemplar
Libero (in Le lacrime di mio padre) 1 eksemplar
Bath after sailing 1 eksemplar
Irwin Shaw - Pensosa, delicatamente gaia | John Updike - Sapore di metallo — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
New York Girl 1 eksemplar
Endpoint 1 eksemplar
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and So Forth 1 eksemplar
1999 1 eksemplar
2004 1 eksemplar
Winner of the Pulitzer Price Price 1 eksemplar
Demasiado lejos 1 eksemplar
John Updike reading from his own works 1 eksemplar
Tekėk už manęs: meilės romanas 1 eksemplar
Lezioni di tedesco (in Le lacrime di mio padre) 1 eksemplar
Hasenherz : Roman 1 eksemplar
Bessere Verhältnisse : Roman 1 eksemplar
The Early Stories 1953-1975 1 eksemplar
Select Stories 1 eksemplar
“Pigeon Feathers” 1 eksemplar
TORNA, CONIGLIO. CDE 1 eksemplar
The Witches of Eastwick [video recording] 1 eksemplar
HUn Imese di domeniche 1 eksemplar
Rabit at rest 1 eksemplar
S by John Updike (1988-02-12) 1 eksemplar
La strada di casa (in Le lacrime di mio padre) 1 eksemplar
Bicchiere pieno (in Le lacrime di mio padre) 1 eksemplar
Blackout (in Le lacrime di mio padre) 1 eksemplar
I guardiani (in Le lacrime di mio padre) 1 eksemplar
O Centauro Livro 1 1 eksemplar
Thanatopses 1 eksemplar
Domácí biograf : výbor z veršů 1 eksemplar
Kinserszenen (in Le lacrime di mio padre) 1 eksemplar
L'apparizione (in Le lacrime di mio padre) 1 eksemplar
La risata degli dei (in Le lacrime di mio padre) 1 eksemplar
Pygmalion 1 eksemplar
Unter dem Astronautenmond : Roman 1 eksemplar
I morgen og i morgen og s ̄videre 1 eksemplar
Small City People 1 eksemplar
The Doctor's Wife [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Eye of Childhood (Advanced) 1 eksemplar
Separating 1 eksemplar
Here Come the Maples 1 eksemplar
Deaths of Distant Friends 1 eksemplar
John Updike reads John Updike 1 eksemplar
"Cruise" 1 eksemplar
The Female Body [essay] 1 eksemplar
Kafka's Greatest Stories 1 eksemplar
Almanach: Das sechsundsiebzigste Jahr 1 eksemplar
'The Great I Am' in The New Yorker 1 Nov 2004 1 eksemplar
Getting the Words Out 1 eksemplar
The Wait (in Penguin Modern Stories 2 - UPDIKE) 1 eksemplar
Man and Daughter in the Cold [short story] 1 eksemplar
Bech in Czech (in The Complete Henry Bech) 1 eksemplar
Should Wizard Hit Mommy 1 eksemplar
In Memoriam, Felis Felis: A Poem 1 eksemplar
Bem Perto da Costa: Ensaios e Critica 1 eksemplar
'Hide-and-Seek' in The New Yorker, 5 Nov 2001 1 eksemplar
Ego and art in Walt Whitman 1 eksemplar
'Maxwell's Touch' in The New Yorker, 14 Aug 2000 1 eksemplar
Still Life (Still Life) 1 eksemplar
Religious Consolation 1 eksemplar
Farrell's Caddie 1 eksemplar
Jesus and Elvis 1 eksemplar
In the Valley of the Lillies 1 eksemplar
O Golpe 1 eksemplar
Duvfjädrar 1 eksemplar
Från gården 1 eksemplar
Emersonianism 1 eksemplar
Confessions of a wild bore 1 eksemplar
Two Sonnets 1 eksemplar
Pigeon Feathers {short story} 1 eksemplar
A sense of shelter 1 eksemplar
The New Yorker August 2, 1969 Updike on Nabokov 1 eksemplar
How Was It, Really? 1 eksemplar
White on White 1 eksemplar
Wife-wooing 1 eksemplar
Nyúlszív : [regény] 1 eksemplar
Dream & Reality 1 eksemplar
Casais Trocados 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Updike, John Hoyer
- Fødselsdato
- 1932-03-18
- Dødsdag
- 2009-01-27
- Begravelsessted
- Danvers, Massachusetts, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
- Dødssted
- Danvers, Massachusetts, USA
- Dødsårsag
- cancer (lung)
- Bopæl
- West Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Shillington, Pennsylvania, USA
Plowville, Pennsylvania, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Rockport, Massachusetts, USA (vis alle 9)
Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
Georgetown, Massachusetts, USA
Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, USA - Uddannelse
- Harvard College (AB, summa cum laude|1954)
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford - Erhverv
- writer
- Relationer
- Hoyer, Linda Grace (parent)
Updike, David (child)
Updike, Mary (aunt)
Jones, Judith (editor) - Organisationer
- Harvard Lampoon
The New Yorker - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- National Book Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (1998)
PEN/Malamud Award (1988)
National Medal of Arts (1989)
National Humanities Medal (2003)
Bad Sex in Fiction (2008)
Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters (2007) (vis alle 39)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (1964)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1964)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1976)
Cover of "Time" magazine (1968 ∙ 1981)
Signet Society Medal for Achievement in the Arts (1971)
Library of Congress, Honorary Consultant in American Letters ( 1972)
Recorded by "The Spoken Arts Treasury of 100 American Poets" (1972)
Lecturer, Centro Venezolano Americano (1972)
Lincoln Lectureship from the Fulbright Board of Foreign Scholarships (1973)
Lafayette College, honorary Doctor of Literature (1974)
Lotus Club Award of Merit (1975)
Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist Award (1983)
Lincoln Literary Award, Union League Club (1983)
National Arts Club Medal of Honor (1984)
Kutztown University Foundation's Director Award (1985)
Exhibit of work at M.D. Anderson Library of the University of Houston (1985)
Peggy Varnadow Helmerich Award (1987)
Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Fiction (1987)
Brandeis University Life Achievement Award (1988)
First annual PEN/Malamud Memorial Reading (1988)
Conch Republic Prize for Literature (1993)
Howells Medal (1995)
Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France (1995)
Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture (1996)
Campion Award (1997)
Harvard Arts First Medal (1998)
Thomas Cooper Library Medal (1998)
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2005)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2002)
Jefferson Lecture (2008)
multiple honorary doctorates
Bowdoin Prize (1954)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2005) - Agent
- William Loverd
Medlemmer
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John Updike: Novels 1959-1965 af John Updike
In this LOA volume, his 4 novels set in a small town in Pennsylvania introduces interesting characters in opposition to one another. One of these stories in "Rabbit, Run" Mr. Updike introduces his character whose moniker is "Rabbit" in which numerous later writings continued this thread.
Wow! Bought this book for 50 cents at St Vinnies just because it was by John Updike and I liked his poetry but I was not enthusiastic about it being a Shakespeare derivative. It anything but a derivative. From the first pages I was hooked. Such beautiful writing. It was like travelling though the illustrations of an illuminated manuscript. I kept reading out passages to my wife. Nothing less than a treat.
A great book for teaching students about the different seasons and months of the year and the bog holidays we associate with each month as well as the seasons to go with it. Great for teaching poetry as well as engaging kids in associating the different things the characters in the book do with the things that kids do in real life during those seasons and months and holiday's.
The writing is undoubtedly very sophisticated - perhaps overly mannered - and the subject - a failing marriage - was gloomy. My first Updike - not my last, but I won't rush to read the next one.
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