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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: "John Updike Laughing at Crane Beach" credit: Dennis Stock
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Opere di John Updike
The Complete Henry Bech: Twenty Stories: Bech: A Book; Bech Is Back; Bech at Bay; His Oeuvre (2001) 210 copie
John Updike: Novels 1959-1965 (LOA #311): The Poorhouse Fair / Rabbit, Run / The Centaur / Of the Farm (Library of… (2018) 71 copie
John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (LOA #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick (Library of America) (2021) 38 copie
John Updike: Novels 1986-1990 (Loa #354): Roger's Version / Rabbit at Rest (Library of America, 354) (2022) 22 copie
John Updike: Novels 1996–2000 (LOA #365): In the Beauty of the Lilies / Gertrude and Claudius / Rabbit Remembered… (2023) 19 copie
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (abridged audio) vol. 1 (1999) — A cura di — 10 copie
American Masters: The Short Stories of Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and John Updike (1998) 10 copie
Seek My Face 8 copie
The Diaries of Adam and Eve 7 copie
Christmas Cards 4 copie
Of prizes and print: Remarks delivered on the occasion of his receiving the 1998 National Book Foundation medal for… (1998) 3 copie
Centennial portfolio : fifty original prints by members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in celebration of… (1998) 3 copie
Six Poems 3 copie
Warm Wine 3 copie
The Beauty of The Lilies 2 copie
Parit 2 copie
The Indian 2 copie
Flying to Florida 2 copie
Haren Är Rik 2 copie
Three Texts from Early Ipswich 2 copie
Haren Återställd 2 copie
A Good Place 2 copie
Still Life (Still Life) 1 copia
New York Girl 1 copia
Demasiado lejos 1 copia
1999 1 copia
2004 1 copia
The Doctor's Wife [short story] 1 copia
TORNA, CONIGLIO. CDE 1 copia
Tekėk už manęs: meilės romanas 1 copia
S by John Updike (1988-02-12) 1 copia
Select Stories 1 copia
The widows of Eastwick 1 copia
“Pigeon Feathers” 1 copia
HUn Imese di domeniche 1 copia
The Early Stories 1953-1975 1 copia
O Centauro Livro 1 1 copia
Thanatopses 1 copia
Domácí biograf : výbor z veršů 1 copia
Pygmalion 1 copia
Hasenherz : Roman 1 copia
Irwin Shaw - Pensosa, delicatamente gaia | John Updike - Sapore di metallo — Autore — 1 copia
Bessere Verhältnisse : Roman 1 copia
Brazil 1 copia
Endpoint 1 copia
Rabit at rest 1 copia
Bath after sailing 1 copia
Deaths of Distant Friends 1 copia
Från gården 1 copia
John Updike reads John Updike 1 copia
The Eye of Childhood (Advanced) 1 copia
Separating 1 copia
In Memoriam, Felis Felis: A Poem 1 copia
Here Come the Maples 1 copia
"Cruise" 1 copia
The Female Body [essay] 1 copia
A sense of shelter 1 copia
Getting the Words Out 1 copia
Should Wizard Hit Mommy 1 copia
Ego and art in Walt Whitman 1 copia
Kafka's Greatest Stories 1 copia
In the Valley of the Lillies 1 copia
Farrell's Caddie 1 copia
Jesus and Elvis 1 copia
Religious Consolation 1 copia
O Golpe 1 copia
Duvfjädrar 1 copia
Emersonianism 1 copia
Confessions of a wild bore 1 copia
Two Sonnets 1 copia
Pigeon Feathers {short story} 1 copia
Dream & Reality 1 copia
How Was It, Really? 1 copia
White on White 1 copia
Wife-wooing 1 copia
Nyúlszív : [regény] 1 copia
Small City People 1 copia
Casais Trocados 1 copia
Opere correlate
McSweeney's Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Comics Issue (2004) — Collaboratore — 1,290 copie
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women (2006) — Collaboratore — 1,090 copie
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (2010) — Collaboratore — 976 copie
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 915 copie
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Collaboratore — 706 copie
All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists (2004) — Collaboratore — 550 copie
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Collaboratore — 451 copie
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Collaboratore — 377 copie
The American Short Story: A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Stories by the Great American Authors (1994) — Collaboratore — 317 copie
The Writer's Digest Handbook of Short Story Writing - Volume 2 - (1988) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 218 copie
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 183 copie
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Collaboratore — 132 copie
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Collaboratore — 131 copie
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Collaboratore — 102 copie
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Collaboratore — 99 copie
Unknown Masterpieces: Writers Rediscover Literature's Hidden Classics (New York Review Books Classics) (2003) — Collaboratore — 97 copie
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Collaboratore — 72 copie
The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers (2005) — Collaboratore — 57 copie
Best of The Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing {anthology} (2002) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers (2006) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 41 copie
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Collaboratore — 36 copie
High Infidelity: 24 Great Short Stories About Adultery by Some of Our Best Contemporary Authors (1997) — Collaboratore — 32 copie
Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction (1988) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Collaboratore — 21 copie
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970, Volume II (1970) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Als Papa Tennis lernte, Der Inbegriff des Erfolgs, Kreuzfahrt (3 TB) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
20th Century American Short Stories, Volume 2 — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Vader is de beste — Autore — 3 copie
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 4, December 1980 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Meesters der vertelkunst : zevenenderdig verhalen uit de moderne wereldliteratuur (1975) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Rabbit, Run [1970 film] — Original book — 2 copie
Time-Life Book Digest: A Woman of Our Times | The Cat and The Curmudgeon | Rabbit At Rest | Under Seige (1990) 2 copie
Eleven American Stories — Collaboratore — 1 copia
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom II — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Updike, John Hoyer
- Data di nascita
- 1932-03-18
- Data di morte
- 2009-01-27
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Danvers, Massachusetts, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Danvers, Massachusetts, USA
- Causa della morte
- cancer (lung)
- Luogo di residenza
- West Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Shillington, Pennsylvania, USA
Plowville, Pennsylvania, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Rockport, Massachusetts, USA (mostra tutto 9)
Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
Georgetown, Massachusetts, USA
Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, USA - Istruzione
- Harvard College (AB, summa cum laude|1954)
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford - Attività lavorative
- writer
- Relazioni
- Hoyer, Linda Grace (parent)
Updike, David (child)
Updike, Mary (aunt)
Jones, Judith (editor) - Organizzazioni
- Harvard Lampoon
The New Yorker - Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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) (mostra tutto 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) - Agente
- William Loverd
Utenti
Discussioni
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John Updike: American Author Challenge in 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (Dicembre 2014)
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- Utenti
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
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- Recensioni
- 727
- ISBN
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- Lingue
- 34
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