John Updike
- John Hoyer Updike
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- Updike, John
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- Date of birth
- 1932-03-18
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- Date of death
- 2009-01-27
- Place of death
- Danvers
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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.
Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; and the novella Rabbit Remembered), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death. Both Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990) were awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class", critics recognized his careful craftsmanship, his unique prose style, and his prolific output – a book a year on average. Updike populated his fiction with characters who "frequently experience personal turmoil and must respond to crises relating to religion, family obligations, and marital infidelity".
His fiction is distinguished by its attention to the concerns, passions, and suffering of average Americans, its emphasis on Christian theology, and its preoccupation with sexuality and sensual detail. His work has attracted significant critical attention and praise, and he is widely considered one of the great American writers of his time. Updike's highly distinctive prose style features a rich, unusual, sometimes arcane vocabulary as conveyed through the eyes of "a wry, intelligent authorial voice that describes the physical world extravagantly while remaining squarely in the realist tradition". He described his style as an attempt "to give the mundane its beautiful due".
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American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
Series:
• Bech
• Buchanan
• Eastwick
• Rabbit
• Scarlet Letter Trilogy
Last modified: 2020-11-02 (revision #39352)
Editions
Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
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Ehepaare | Paperback | 3-499-11488-7 | 1997-03 |
Landleben | Paperback | 978-3-499-24016-4 | 2007-05 |
Rabbit in Ruhe | Hardcover | 3-498-06870-9 | 1992-09 |
Terrorist | Paperback | 978-3-499-24473-5 | 2008-01 |
Rabbit, eine Rückkehr | Paperback | 3-499-23538-2 | 2004-01 |
Bessere Verhältnisse | Paperback | 3-499-12391-6 | 1994-12 |
Unter dem Astronautenmond | Paperback | 3-499-14151-5 | 1993-03 |
Erinnerungen an die Zeit unter Ford | Hardcover | 3-498-06871-7 | 1994-09 |
Die Hexen von Eastwick | Paperback | 3-499-12366-5 | 1988-01 |
Landleben | Hardcover | 978-3-498-06883-7 | 2006-01 |
Relationships
- John Updike wrote Rabbit Remembered
- John Updike wrote Rabbit, Run
- John Updike wrote blurb for Das Attentat(jacket cover)
- John Updike wrote Zähne und Zweifel
- John Updike wrote Bech is Back
- John Updike wrote Rabbit Redux
- John Updike wrote Rabbit Is Rich
- John Updike wrote blurb for Also dann bis morgen
- John Updike wrote blurb for Quartett im Herbst
- John Updike wrote blurb for Rot ist mein Name
- John Updike wrote The Chaste Planet
- John Updike wrote Rabbit in Ruhe
- John Updike wrote Rabbit at Rest
- John Updike wrote Ehepaare
- John Updike wrote Landleben
- John Updike wrote Villages
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