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Author Name:

John Updike

Born As:

John Hoyer Updike

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Born:

18 Mar 1932

Died:

27 Jan 2009

                          One of my earliest memories is of seeing her at her desk... I admired the writer's equipment, the typewriter eraser, the boxes of clean paper. And I remember the brown envelopes that stories would go off in - and come back in.

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.

Speaking of his Mother.

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