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John Updike


Born
in Shillington, Pennsylvania, The United States
March 18, 1932

Died
January 27, 2009

Genre
Fiction

Influences
Henry Green, Vladimir Nabokov, Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Kafka, P ...more


John Hoyer Updike was 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. His works often explore sex, faith, and death, and their inter-relationships.

He died of lung cancer at age 76. ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 324,684 ratings · 24,375 reviews · 871 distinct works • Similar authors
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstro...
3.59 avg rating — 63,875 ratings — published 1960 — 218 editions
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Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angs...
3.93 avg rating — 17,987 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions
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Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angs...
4.01 avg rating — 16,508 ratings — published 1990 — 98 editions
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Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstr...
3.81 avg rating — 16,604 ratings — published 1971 — 2 editions
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The Witches of Eastwick
3.21 avg rating — 18,652 ratings — published 1984 — 159 editions
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Couples
3.59 avg rating — 5,879 ratings — published 1968 — 130 editions
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The Centaur
3.70 avg rating — 4,982 ratings — published 1963 — 102 editions
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Terrorist
3.17 avg rating — 4,737 ratings — published 2007 — 87 editions
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Brazil
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Quotes by John Updike  (?)
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“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories
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“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
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“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
― John Updike, Self-Consciousness
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