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...
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The following is the complete bibliography of John Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009), an American novelist, poet, critic and essayist noted for...
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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...
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and screenwriter John Updike (1932–2009), American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic Matthew Updike, 21st century American...
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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...
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fictional city that serves as the major setting for American writer John Updike's "Rabbit" cycle of novels (comprising Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit...
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Rabbit, Run (category Novels by John Updike)
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...
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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...
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Insane Clown Poppy (category Television episodes written by John Frink)
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...
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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...
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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...
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prizes each in the Fiction category: Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. Because the award is for books published in the...
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The Witches of Eastwick (category Novels by John Updike)
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...
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Thomas Mifflin, and as the childhood home of American author John Updike. Many of Updike's stories take place in the fictional town of Olinger, a lightly-disguised...
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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...
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Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow? (category Short stories by John Updike)
Who Made Yellow Roses Red? is a work of short fiction by the novelist John Updike, first appearing in The New Yorker on March 30, 1956. It was published...
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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...
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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...
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Authors who have won the award more than once include William Faulkner, John Updike, William Gaddis, Jesmyn Ward, and Philip Roth, each having won on two...
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A Trillion Feet of Gas (category Short stories by John Updike)
“A Trillion Feet of Gas” is a work of short fiction by John Updike first appearing in The New Yorker on December 8, 1956. The story was collected The...
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Newspapers.com. Petersen, Clarence (1987-11-01). "Roger's Version, by John Updike (Fawcett/Crest, $4.95)". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original...
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Wesley Russell Updike (1900-1972) was an American educator, soldier, and father of author John Updike, husband of writer Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, and grandfather...
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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...
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positive book reviews, including mentions by notable critics such as John Updike and Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. The theory proposed by Jaynes influenced...
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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...
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Couples (novel) (category Novels by John Updike)
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...
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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...
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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...
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tend to support themselves by book sales. However, in an interview, John Updike lamented that "the category of 'literary fiction' has sprung up recently...
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The Centaur (category Novels by John Updike)
The Centaur is a novel by John Updike, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1963. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Portions of the novel first...
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