Stecz-Updike

John Updike ·  March 18, 1932-January 27, 2009 ·  Born in Reading, Pennsylvania ·  His father-high school science teacher; mother-writer ·  Only child ·  Novelist and short story author ·  Attended Shillington High School ·  President and co-valedictorian of high school class ·  Attended Harvard University and majored in English ·  As a senior at Harvard, he was the president of the //Harvard Lampoon//, a humor magazine ·  He graduated Harvard in 1954 The [|Poorhouse Fair (1958)], [|Rabbit, Run (1960)]  , The [|Centaur (1963)]  , [|Of the Farm (1965)]  , [|Couples (1968)]  , [|Bech: A Book (1970)]  , <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Rabbit Redux (1971)]  , A <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Month of Sundays (1974)]  , The <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Coup (1978)]  , <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Rabbit is Rich (1981)]  , <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Bech Is Back (1982)]  , The <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Witches of Eastwick (1984)]  , <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Roger's Version (1986)]  , <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|S. (1988)]  , <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Rabbit at Rest (1990)]  , <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Memories of the Ford Administration (1992)]  , <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Brazil (1994)]  , <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996)]  , <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Toward the End of Time (1997)]  , <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Bech at Bay (1998)]  , <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Gertrude and Claudius (2000)]  , <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Seek My Face (2002)]  , <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Villages (2004)]  , <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Terrorist (2006)]  , The <span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Widows of Eastwick (2008)] ** Short ** ** Stories ** The Alligators (1958), A Sense of Shelter (1960), A & P (1961) <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  Wrote fiction as well as short stories <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  Modernist <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  "Rich description and language" <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  Comparable in style to Marcel Proust and Vladimir Nabokov <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  Wrote about sex, religion, and art, which are “the three great secret things in human experience” <span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> "John Updike Interview -- Academy of Achievement." //Academy of Achievement Main Menu//. Web. 12 Apr. 2010. <http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/upd0int-1>. <span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> "Internet Book List :: Author Information: John Updike." //Internet Book List :: Home//. Web. 12 Apr. 2010. <http://www.iblist.com/author305.htm>.
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