Who is John Updike
John Updike was an American novelist. He wrote 23 novels. His most famous character was Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom who was a basketball star who peaked in high school. Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990) won the Pulitzer Prize. He was a prolific writer. Besides his novels he was a short-story writer, poet, essayist, and art and book critic. John Updike was born on March 18, 1932 in Reading, Pa. His father was a science teacher and his mother was interested in writing and publish two works of fiction. He attended Harvard on an academic scholarship and art school in England. He was recruited by E.B. White to write at The New Yorker beginning in 1954. He will also be remembered for his better selling novels, The Witches of Eastwick (1984), which is about three women who turn to devil worship after their marriages break down. A film based on this book was created in 1987 starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, and Cher.
Writings by John Updike.
- Rabbit, Run (1960)
- Rabbit Redux (1971)
- Rabbit Is Rich (1981)
- Rabbit At Rest (1990)
- Rabbit Remembered (2001)
- Bech: A Book
- Bech Is Back
- Bech at Bay
- Buchanan Dying
- Memories of the Ford Administration
- The Witches of Eastwick
- The Widows of Eastwick
- The Poorhouse Fair
- The Centaur
- Of the Farm
- Couples
- A Month of Sundays
- Marry Me
- The Coup
- Roger’s Version
- Brazil
- In the Beauty of the Lilies
- Toward the End of Time
- Gertrude and Claudius
- Seek My Face
- Villages
- Terrorist
He also wrote regularly for the The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. He recently died of lung cancer on January 27, 2009. More details can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.
