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A Short Biography of John Updike

Author Name:

John Updike

Born As:

John Hoyer Updike

Other Names:

Born:

18 Mar 1932

Died:

27 Jan 2009




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Selected Works:

Rabbit novels:

Rabbit, Run - 1960
Rabbit Redux - 1971
Rabbit Is Rich - 1981
Rabbit At Rest - 1990
Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels - 1995

Rabbit Remembered  - a novella within the collection Licks of Love - 2001

Bech books:

Bech, a Book - 1970
Bech Is Back - 1982
Bech at Bay - 1998
The Complete Henry Bech - 2001

Buchanan books:

Buchanan Dying  - 1974 - a play
Memories of the Ford Administration - 1992 - a novel

Eastwick books:

The Witches of Eastwick - 1984
The Widows of Eastwick - 2008

Other novels:

The Poorhouse Fair - 1959
The Centaur - 1963
Of the Farm - 1965
Couples - 1968
Marry Me - 1977
The Coup - 1978
Brazil - 1994
In the Beauty of the Lilies - 1996
Toward the End of Time - 1997
Gertrude and Claudius - 2000
Seek My Face - 2002
Villages - 2004
Terrorist - 2006

The Scarlet Letter Trilogy:

A Month of Sundays - 1975
Roger's Version - 1986
S. - 1988

Short Story Collections:

The Same Door - 1959
Pigeon Feathers - 1962
Olinger Stories - 1964 - a selection
The Music School - 1966
Museums And Women - 1972
Problems - 1979
Too Far To Go - the Maples stories - 1979
Trust Me - 1987
The Afterlife - 1994
The Best American Short Stories of the Century  - 2000 - editor
Licks of Love - 2001
The Early Stories: 1953–1975 - 2003
My Father's Tears and Other Stories - 2009
The Maples Stories - 2009

Poetry:

The Carpentered Hen - 1958
Telephone Poles - 1963
Midpoint - 1969
Dance of the Solids - 1969
Cunts: Upon Receiving The Swingers Life Club Membership Solicitation - 1974 - limited edition
Tossing and Turning - 1977
acing Nature - 1985
Collected Poems 1953–1993 - 1993
Americana: and Other Poems - 2001
Endpoint and Other Poems - 2009

Non-fiction, essays and criticism:

Assorted Prose - 1965
Picked-Up Pieces - 1975
Hugging The Shore - 1983
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs - 1989
Just Looking - 1989
Odd Jobs - 1991
Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf - 1996
More Matter - 1999
Still Looking: Essays on American Art - 2005
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism - 2007.                          
Mother Linda Grace Hoyer
Father Wesley Russell Updike

First wife Mary E. Pennington, four children, Elizabeth, David, Michael and Miranda.
Second wife Martha Ruggles Bernhard.                          
Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest both won Pulitzer Prizes.
Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems have appeared in The New Yorker since the 1950s.