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...

Pennington (Updike) Weatherall (January 26, 1930 - February 25, 2018) was a visual artist and the first wife of John Updike. Many of Updike's early characters...

Franc Ruggles Bernhard Updike (October 18, 1937 – October 9, 2023) was an American social worker and the widow of author John Updike. She served as a model...

and screenwriter John Updike (1932–2009), American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic Matthew Updike, 21st century American...

The following is the complete bibliography of John Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009), an American novelist, poet, critic and essayist noted for...

as Christopher Walken, Stephen King as himself, Amy Tan as herself, John Updike as himself and Joe Mantegna as recurring character Fat Tony. Drew Barrymore...

fictional city that serves as the major setting for American writer John Updike's "Rabbit" cycle of novels (comprising Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit...

them. The novel was generally well-received, with positive reviews from John Updike and The New York Times. The title of the book, according to Alan Cheuse...

child of author John Updike, and was the model for several of his characters. She is married to Tete Cobblah. Elizabeth Pennington Updike was born in 1955...

The Witches of Eastwick is a 1984 novel by American writer John Updike. A sequel, The Widows of Eastwick, was published in 2008. The story, set in the...

David Updike (born 1957) is an American writer and academic. Updike is the son of author John Updike, who used him as a model for characters in several...

story (one of his best) appeared toward the back of the issue—behind a John Updike story—since, as it happened, Maxwell and other editors at the magazine...

The Witches of Eastwick is a novel by John Updike. The Witches of Eastwick may also refer to: The Witches of Eastwick (film), a 1987 adaptation of the...

Rabbit, Run is a 1960 novel by John Updike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry...

prizes each in the Fiction category: Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. Because the award is for books published in the...

Linda Grace Hoyer Updike (1904–1989) was an American writer from Plowville, Pennsylvania. She was the mother of writer John Updike and grandmother of writer...

unfashionable in literary circles in the 1960s. After O'Hara's death, John Updike, an admirer of O'Hara's writing, said that the prolific author "out-produced...

The John Updike Childhood Home is the childhood home of American novelist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Updike, who lived there with his father...

Couples is a 1968 novel by American author John Updike. The novel depicts the lives of a promiscuous circle of ten couples in the small Massachusetts...

Newspapers.com. Petersen, Clarence (1987-11-01). "Roger's Version, by John Updike (Fawcett/Crest, $4.95)". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original...

editor and vice-president after a career that included working with John Updike and Anne Tyler. Pat Knopf left his parents' publishing company in 1959...

American supernatural comedy film directed by George Miller and based on John Updike's 1984 novel of the same name. It stars Jack Nicholson alongside Cher...

positive book reviews, including mentions by notable critics such as John Updike and Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. The theory proposed by Jaynes influenced...

series by John Updike were set in fictionalized versions of Reading and nearby Shillington, called Brewer and Olinger respectively. Updike was born in...

fiction by John Updike. The volume was published posthumously in 2009 by Alfred A. Knopf and is the final collection to date of Updike’s stories. The...

tend to support themselves by book sales. However, in an interview, John Updike lamented that "the category of 'literary fiction' has sprung up recently...

Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1981) Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1982) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983) Ironweed by William Kennedy...

advocacy. 2013 Commander of the Legion of Honor by the Republic of France. John Updike, considered by many Roth's chief literary rival, said in 2008, "He's...

Mercedes. The book is about the murder of reclusive writer John Rothstein (an amalgam of John Updike, Philip Roth, and J. D. Salinger), his missing notebooks...

Schocken Books in 1971. It was reprinted in 1995 with an introduction by John Updike. The collection includes all the works published during Kafka's lifetime...