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John Updike

(John Hoyer Updike)
USA  (1932 - 2009)
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About John Updike
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, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of fifty-odd books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal.

John Updike died Tuesday, January 27th 2009 at age 76.
 
New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Endpoint and Other Poems
Endpoint and Other Poems

My Father's Tears: And Other Stories
My Father's Tears

Novels
The Poorhouse FairThe CentaurOf the FarmCouples
A Month of SundaysMarry Me: A RomanceThe CoupYour Lover Just Called
Roger's VersionMore Stately MansionsSMemories of the Ford Administration
BrazilIn the Beauty of the LiliesToward the End of TimeThe Women Who Got Away
Gertrude and ClaudiusSeek My FaceVillagesTerrorist
 
Collections
Carpentered Hen and Other Tame CreaturesHoping for a HoopoeThe Same DoorPigeon Feathers: And Other Stories
Telephone PolesOlinger StoriesAssorted ProseThe Music School
Midpoint and Other PoemsMuseums and Women: And Other StoriesSeventy PoemsSix Poems
Tossing and TurningProblems and Other StoriesFacing NatureTrust Me: Short Stories
The Afterlife: And Other StoriesForty StoriesSelected StoriesA Child's Calendar
Deadly SinsCollected Poems 1953-1993Friends from Philadelphia: And Other StoriesA Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects
Licks of Love: Short Stories and a SequelAmericana: And Other PoemsThe Early Stories: 1953-1975Three Trips: The Short-story Writer As Tourist
Endpoint and Other PoemsMy Father's Tears: And Other Stories
 
Chapbooks
A and PThe Alligators
 
Plays
Buchanan Dying
 
Picture Books
The Magic FluteThe Twelve Terrors of Christmas
 
John Updike recommends
The Clicking of Cuthbert
The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922)
(Oldest Member)
P G Wodehouse
"It was P.G. Wodehouse... who brought me resoundingly into the imaginary world of golf - his wonderful, comical golf stories."
A Garden of Earthly Delights
A Garden of Earthly Delights (1966)
(Garden of Earthly Delights, book 1)
Joyce Carol Oates
"If the phrase 'woman of letters' existed, she would be, foremost in this country, entitled to it."
Earthly Possessions
Earthly Possessions (1977)
Anne Tyler
"Wickedly good."
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (1978)
Bruno Schulz
"Astonishing stories by one of The great writers... His verbal art strikes us - stuns us even - with its overload of beauty."
The Beginning Place
The Beginning Place (1980)
Ursula K Le Guin
"Excitingly told...elegant parable. Mrs Le Guin is a magisterial imaginer."
Alice in Bed
Alice in Bed (1983)
Cathleen Schine
"A sprightly novel. Schine has a real caricaturist's flair."
Naomi
Naomi (1985)
Junichirō Tanizaki
"Tanizaki writes with an unabashed sensuality."
Death in the Andes
Death in the Andes (1996)
Mario Vargas Llosa
"Peru's best novelist - one of the world's best."
I'm Losing You
I'm Losing You (1996)
Bruce Wagner
"Bruce Wagner knows his hollywood, and writes like a wizard."
The Music at Long Verney
The Music at Long Verney (2000)
Sylvia Townsend Warner
"On every page there is something to be seen or smelled or felt. . . Beneath her refined witchery lies a strange freshness one can only call, in praise, primitive."
Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir (2010)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
"In his crowded career and his eventful life, Ngũgĩ has enacted, for all to see, the paradigmatic trials and quandaries of a contemporary African writer caught in sometimes implacable political, social, racial, and linguistic currents."



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