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  1. Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetrology: Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest by John Updike, 1995-10-17
  2. My Father's Tears: And Other Stories by John Updike, 2010-05-25
  3. The Early Stories: 1953-1975 by John Updike, 2004-09-28
  4. Golf Dreams by John Updike, 1997-09-08
  5. Couples by John Updike, 1996-08-27
  6. Self-Consciousness by John Updike, 1990-05-28
  7. Rabbit, Run by John Updike, 1996-08-27
  8. Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism by John Updike, 2008-09-30
  9. In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike, 1997-01-21
  10. The Maples Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics) by John Updike, 2009-08-04
  11. The Centaur by John Updike, 1996-08-27
  12. Terrorist: A Novel by John Updike, 2007-05-29
  13. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike, 1996-08-27
  14. Still Looking: Essays on American Art by John Updike, 2005-11-08

1. John Updike
John Updike ( 1932) Escritor estadounidense, que retrató principalmente la vida cotidiana de los barrios de las afueras de su país. Nacido en Shillington (Pennsylvania), estudió en las universidades
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John Updike
E scritor estadounidense, que retrató principalmente la vida cotidiana de los barrios de las afueras de su país. Nacido en Shillington (Pennsylvania), estudió en las universidades de Harvard y Oxford. Fue colaborador de la revista The New Yorker (1955-1957). La gallina de la carpintería (1958), su primer libro, es una colección de poemas. Su primera novela, La feria del asilo (1958), tiene como protagonistas a los habitantes de una residencia de ancianos, y fue recibida por la crítica con grandes alabanzas. Corre, Conejo (1960) cuenta la historia de un joven que intenta superar un periodo de desilusiones; El regreso de Conejo Conejo es rico (1981; Premio Pulitzer en 1982), y Conejo descansa (1990; Premio Pulitzer en 1991) comparten protagonista con la anterior. En El centauro , que recibió en 1963 el Premio Nacional del Libro en su sección de narrativa, Updike transformó al centauro de la mitología griega Quirón en un maestro de escuela de Pennsylvania y le sirve de motivo autobiográfico para contar sus relaciones con su padre que también era profesor. En torno a la granja (1965) es una breve pero intensa visión del pasado y el presente, representados por su madre y su mujer.

2. John Updike Interview With Don Swaim
Conversation from 1984 from CBS Radio. Available in RealAudio.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, author John Updike talks to Don Swaim about Updike's novels, The Witches of Eastwick and Rabbit, Run, in this 1984 interview. Updike tells of his early desire to be an artist, about writing book reviews, and he gives three tips for aspiring writers.
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3. Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: John Updike
John Updike. BIO Over his long and distinguished writing career, John Updike has received numerous awards and literary prizes. Among
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John Hoyer Updike born on March 18, 1932 in Reading, PA (model for his fictional Brewer), son of Linda Grace (Hoyer) Updike and Wesley Russell Updike. Until 13 years of age he lived at 117 Philadelphia Avenue in Shillington, PA. His maternal grandparents, with whom he lived in the same house during most of his childhood, together with his parents, were John and Katherine Hoyer. ÝHis paternal grandparents were Virginia and Hartley Updike, and Hartley Updike was a Presbyterian minister.
- Over his long and distinguished writing career, John Updike has received numerous awards and literary prizes. Among them:
- The National Book Award for THE CENTAUR
- Three National Book Critics Circle Awards: for HUGGING THE SHORES, RABBIT IS RICH, and RABBIT AT REST.
- Two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction: for RABBIT IS RICH and RABBIT AT REST
- The American National Book Award for RABBIT IS RICH
- He has received, over the years, the Signet Society Medal for Achievement in the Arts, the Edward McDowell Medal for Literature, the Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist Award, the Lincoln Literary Award and the National Arts Club Medal of Honor.

4. John Updike --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Updike, John (Hoyer) Encyclopædia Britannica Article. , Updike, John Hoyer (born 1932), US author. One of the most famous and successful
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5. Borzoi Reader | Authors | John Updike
2001 $23.00. Assorted Prose of updike john Updike Hardcover Knopf Fiction / Literature 0394-41473-X April 1965 $24.95. Bech
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Brazil John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . He is the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Howells Medal. Complete list of John Updike's Knopf titles in-print below. John Updike's first collection of verse since his Collected Poems, 1953-1993

6. WIEM: Updike John Hoyer
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7. John Updike
john updike was born in Reading in Pennsylvania, but until he was 13 he lived in Shillington, a smaller city near Reading, and then he moved away to Plowville
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B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback John (Hoyer) Updike (1932-) American novelist, short story writer and poet, internationally known for his novels RABBIT, RUN (1960), RABBIT REDUX (1971), RABBIT IS RICH (1981), and RABBIT AT REST (1990). They follow the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a star athlete, from his youth through the social and sexual upheavals of the 1960s, to later periods of his life, and to final decline. Updike's oeuvre has been large, consisting of novels, collections of poems, short stories, and essays. He has written a great deal of literary criticism. Among the writers whose works he has reviewed are such names as Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, Joyce Carol Oates, Iris Murdoch, Michael Tournier, Raymond Queneau, Umberto Eco, Milan Kundera, Evgenii Evtushenko, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Isabel Allende. "The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the soul's very life." (from Assorted Prose John Updike was born in Reading in Pennsylvania, but until he was 13 he lived in Shillington, a smaller city near Reading, and then he moved away to Plowville, PA. Updike's childhood was shadowed by psoriasis and stammering, but his mother encouraged him to write. In his childhood he lived in an isolated farm, from where he dreamed of escaping. He consumed books by Erle Stanley Gardner, Ellery Queen, Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, and P. G. Wodehouse. Dead authors depressed him. "My inability to read bravely as a boy had this advantage: when I went to college, I was a true tabula rasa, and received gratefully the imprint of my instructors' opinion, and got good marks."

8. John Updike: A Who2 Profile
john updike • Author. Life and Times john updike Fabulous NY Times collection of Updikiana; you must register (but it s free).
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JOHN UPDIKE Author From Harvard to a staff position on The New Yorker , John Updike turned his brainy pedigree into a successful career as a novelist, essayist and critic. His novels Rabbit, Run Couples (1978) and Pulitzer winner Rabbit is Rich (1981) exemplify his sophisticated take on contemporary middle-class tragedy. Prolific as all get-out, Updike has also written numerous short stories and poems, and in 1997 he engineered a group-written mystery story on the Internet.
Other novelists on Who2 include Annie Proulx Ernest Hemingway Eudora Welty and J.D. Salinger
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Academic discussions of his works John Hoyer Updike
From Finland (!) a good brisk biography and list of his books Life and Times: John Updike
Fabulous NY Times collection of Updikiana; you must register (but it's free) Joyce Carol Oates on John Updike
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9. JOYCE CAROL OATES: ON JOHN UPDIKE
Includes the article john updike's American Comedies and a review of Rabbit at Rest.
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John Updike's American Comedies
. . . A writer who shares Updike's extreme interest in the visual world as well as his obsession with language is Joseph Conrad who, significantly, could imagine the ideal and the real only as hopelessly separate: when the "ideal" is given historical freedom to experience itself in flesh, in action, we have the tragicomedy of Nostromo, more... John Updike's Rabbit at Rest John Updike's choice of Rabbit Angstrom, in Rabbit, Run more... Revised Wed, Jun 11, 2003

10. The SALON Interview: John Updike
THE SALON INTERVIEW john updike. " As close as you can get to the stars" loathed; a halfform like maggots" john updike is an agile and adept interview
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THE SALON INTERVIEW: JOHN UPDIKE
"As close as you can get to the stars"
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F or a man who dislikes interviews he has called them "a form to be loathed; a half-form like maggots" John Updike is an agile and adept interview subject. In conversation he seems to shed, as the critic James Wolcott has put it, "bright amounts of angel fluff" about almost any topic at hand. At age 64, there is indeed something snow-capped and oddly angelic about Updike; he seems to hover over the contemporary literary scene like an apparition from another era, the last great American man of letters. On a recent Friday in New York, a snowy and harried day that would find him shuffling from "Good Morning America" to "Charlie Rose" to a marathon telephone conference with 20 journalists, Updike took an hour to talk to SALON about his new novel "In the Beauty of the Lilies" a vigorous and expansive book that tracks four generations in a single American family as well as a career that has spanned some 40 books, including 17 novels and numerous collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. He also spoke on a variety of other topics, including the American cinema and its discontents (Quentin Tarantino, "Leaving Las Vegas"), the current state of The New Yorker as witnessed in its fiction ("They kind of go for more pow, more zap"), Bill Clinton's sexual and political conundrums, and his rather autumnal feelings about the decline and fall of the American reader. In your new novel, "In the Beauty of the Lilies," both religion and the movies figure very prominently in the lives of many of the characters, and there's a sense that film has somehow replaced religion as the place people look to for clues about how to live. How true is this?

11. UPDIKE, JOHN
International forfatterbibliografi.
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UPDIKE, JOHN
John Hoyer Updike er født den 18. marts 1932 i Pennsylvania, USA. "Hare hop" ("Rabbit, Run", 1960) (Hare Hop, nr 1)
Gyldendal : 1963
Gyldendal, 2. udg. : 1971
Gyldendals Bogklub : 1971 "I mogen og i morgen og så videre" ved Klaus Rifbjerg
Gyldendals Bekkasinbøger, 39 : 1965 "Min elsker har sorte negle" , novelle i "Ny amerikansk prosa" ved Erik Wiedermann
Stig Vendelkær (SV Bøgerne) : 1966 "Musikskolen" ("The Music School", 1966)
Gyldendal : 1968 "Hver ta'r sit" ("Couples", 1968)
Gyldendal : 1969
Gyldendals Bogklub, ny udg. : 1969 "Ace in the Hole and Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth"
Gjellerup (Tekstserien,, 8) : 1970 "Bech : en bog" ("Bech : A Book", 1970)
Gyldendal : 1971 "Rabbit igen" ("Rabbit Redux", 1971) (Hare hop, nr 2) Gyldendal : 1972 Gyldendals Bogklub : 1973 "Den tid da alle var gravide" , novelle i "Gyldendals magasin 13" Gyldendals Tranebøger : 1974 "Marchen gennem Boston og andre noveller" (Udvalg fra "Museums and women and other stories") Gyldendal : 1974 "Enkesenge i Rom" , novelle i "Bitre hvedebrødsdage og andre kærlighedshistorier fra hele verden" ved Tove Ditlevsen Lademann : 1976 "Til kærligheden os skiller" ("Marry Me") Gyldendal : 1977 "Krystaller af skyld"

12. American Literature Web Resources: John Updike
American Literature Web Resources john updike. john (HOYER) updike (1932 ) Compiled By Amy Hannon. Chronology. 1932 john Hoyer updike was born on March 18 in Reading, PA. 1936 Began attending public schools in Shillington (until 1950)
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JOHN (HOYER) UPDIKE (1932- )
Compiled By: Amy Hannon
Chronology
1932 John Hoyer Updike was born on March 18 in Reading, PA
1936 Began attending public schools in Shillington (until 1950)
1945 Moves with his parents and grandparents to a farmhouse near Plowville, PA
1950 Graduates president and co-valedictorian of his senior class
During the following three summers he works as a copy boy for the Reading Eagle
Entered Harvard in the Fall
Begins drawing for the Harvard Lampoon, a humor magazine
1953 Marries Mary E. Pennington
Elected president of Harvard Lampoon
Majors in English 1954 Graduates summa cum laude from Harvard Enrolls in the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts at Oxford University Meets E.B. and Katherine White and is offered a staff position at The New Yorker 1955 Daughter Elizabeth is born April 1 Returns from England and joins The New Yorker as a staff writer 1957 Son David is born January 19 Leaves The New Yorker 1959 Son Michael is born May 14 The Poorhouse Fair and The Same Door were published 1960 Daughter Miranda is born December 15 Rabbit, Run is published

13. Updike Home Page
** THE CENTAURIAN **. A john updike WEBSITE FOR INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION. The materials Publish. In john updike s Room New and Selected Poems. By
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A JOHN UPDIKE WEBSITE FOR INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION Last update 25 May 2004 The Centaurian Website was created online 15 November 1996 THANK YOU An old and famous John Newton hymn, "Amazing Grace," has one stanza which begins, "Through many dangers, toils, and snares I have already come." Among my dangers, toils, and snares the past ten weeks has been a nexus of computer problems, which I think are mostly resolved. I have been very delayed in getting updates for this website done and email answered because of that. I feel along with Newton that "I once was lost, but now am found"! Thanks to all readers for your patience with these simply unbelievably complex and compounded computer problems. Dr. James Yerkes, Webmaster "SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS" :AN EXTENSIVE UPDIKE BIOGRAPHY-INTERVIEW IN THE UK GUARDIAN IN ADVANCE OF HAY-ON-WYE Click here and go to What's New in Updikiana John Hoyer Updike WELCOME! This website is designed to provide information and promote discussion about writer John Updike's life and work. As employed in his third novel, published in 1963, the Greek mythological figure of the Centaurhalf human and half horseclearly represents the ambiguity of human existence. It symbolizes both the soaring energies of spiritual transcendence which provoke anxiety and hope, and the captive energies of physical embodiment which generate suffering and pleasure. In all his writings John Updike has never failed to address the agonies and the ecstasies these tangled energies generate in human life.

14. Updike Home Page
This website is designed to provide information and promote discussion about writer john updike's life and work In all his writings john updike has never failed to address the
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THE CENTAURIAN
A JOHN UPDIKE WEBSITE FOR INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION Last update 25 May 2004 The Centaurian Website was created online 15 November 1996 THANK YOU An old and famous John Newton hymn, "Amazing Grace," has one stanza which begins, "Through many dangers, toils, and snares I have already come." Among my dangers, toils, and snares the past ten weeks has been a nexus of computer problems, which I think are mostly resolved. I have been very delayed in getting updates for this website done and email answered because of that. I feel along with Newton that "I once was lost, but now am found"! Thanks to all readers for your patience with these simply unbelievably complex and compounded computer problems. Dr. James Yerkes, Webmaster "SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS" :AN EXTENSIVE UPDIKE BIOGRAPHY-INTERVIEW IN THE UK GUARDIAN IN ADVANCE OF HAY-ON-WYE Click here and go to What's New in Updikiana John Hoyer Updike WELCOME! This website is designed to provide information and promote discussion about writer John Updike's life and work. As employed in his third novel, published in 1963, the Greek mythological figure of the Centaurhalf human and half horseclearly represents the ambiguity of human existence. It symbolizes both the soaring energies of spiritual transcendence which provoke anxiety and hope, and the captive energies of physical embodiment which generate suffering and pleasure. In all his writings John Updike has never failed to address the agonies and the ecstasies these tangled energies generate in human life.

15. Updike Item2
This book contains essays by Howard Lindsay, Harry Golden, Walt Kelly, William K. Zinsser, and john updike, each representing from a family and cultural
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A BRIEF UPDIKE BIOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY CHRONOLOGY Compiled by James Yerkes Last update 21 April 2004 Send your information, questions, and comments about this webpage by clicking the following link: centaurian@prexar.com [Photograph courtesy of Alfred A. Knopf] John Hoyer Updike born on March 18 in Reading, PA (model for his fictional Brewer), son of Linda Grace (Hoyer) Updike and Wesley Russell Updike. Until 13 years of age lived at 117 Philadelphia Avenue in Shillington, PA. His maternal grandparents, with whom he lived in the same house during most of his childhood, together with his parents, were John and Katherine Hoyer. His paternal grandparents were Virginia and Hartley Updike, and Hartley Updike was a Presbyterian minister. Began attending public schools in Shillington, fictionalized as Olinger in his stories and novels. In school there 1936-1950. [ Age 8 Photograph by Earl W. Snyder] Graduates president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer and the two following, he works as a copy boy for the Reading Eagle , writing a few feature stories. In the Fall he entered Harvard University on a tuition scholarship. Begins drawing and writing for the

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17. Bmj.com Meulenberg 315 (7123): 1709
British Medical Journal article highlights several books and movies that refer to psoriasis, with details on authors including john updike and Dennis Potter.
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In John Updike's novel The Centaur young Peter Caldwell has psoriasis. He is not sure whether to tell his girlfriend, but he is also aware of the power that the disease can involve, when he wonders: "Should he tell her? Would it, by making her share the shame, wed them inextricably; make her, by bondage of pity, his slave? Can he, so young, afford a slave?" And he does not conceal the fact that the disease also gives him pleasure. "The delight of feeling a large flake yield and part from the body under the insistence of a fingernail must be experienced to be forgiven." The visibility of psoriasis appeals to the imagination, perhaps because of the chronic, variable, and unpredictable nature of the disease, and has even led to literary language in the medical literature.

18. BBC - Books - Author Profile For John Updike
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An Outline of American Literature. by Kathryn VanSpanckeren. American Prose Since 1945 Realism and Experimentation john updike (1932 ). *** Index***.
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Index John Updike, like Cheever, is also regarded as a writer of manners with his suburban settings, domestic themes, reflections of ennui and wistfulness, and, particularly, his fictional locales on the eastern seaboard, in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Updike is best known for his four Rabbit books, depictions of the life of a man Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom through the ebbs and flows of his existence across four decades of American social and political history. Rabbit, Run (1960) is a mirror of the 1950s, with Angstrom an aimless, disaffected young husband. Rabbit Redux (1971) spotlighting the counterculture of the 1960s finds Angstrom still without a clear goal or purpose or viable escape route from mundaneness. In Rabbit Is Rich (1981), Harry has become prosperous through an inheritance against the landscape of the wealthy self-centeredness of the 1970s, as the Vietnam era wanes. The final volume, Rabbit at Rest (1990), glimpses Angstrom's reconciliation with life, and inadvertent death, against the backdrop of the 1980s.

20. BBC News | ARTS | Updike Bears Witness To Attacks
Pulitzer Prizewinning author john updike describes what he saw of the New York attack as he watched in shock from a relative's house in Brooklyn.
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Updike was once a New Yorker reporter
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Updike watched events at the World Trade Center unfold from a relative's house in neighbouring Brooklyn. The acclaimed author of the Rabbit tetralogy told the BBC how the "horrendous" experience had shocked him deeply.
Rabbit: Four books published since 1960
"To actually be seeing it not a mile away was very moving, disturbing, unsettling," he said. "It's like the bottom fell out of your own existence somehow." The author, who is based near Boston, described how his grand-stepdaughter alerted him to what was happening. 'Horror of horrors' They watched the first plane crash on television before moving outside to see across the water to Manhattan. He was still watching the scene an hour later when what he called the "horror of horrors" occurred.

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