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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...
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  • Pennington (Updike) Weatherall (January 26, 1930 - February 25, 2018) was a visual artist and the first wife of John Updike. Many of Updike's early characters...
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  • and screenwriter John Updike (1932–2009), American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic Matthew Updike, 21st century American...
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  • Franc Ruggles Bernhard Updike (October 18, 1937 – October 9, 2023) was an American social worker and the widow of author John Updike. She served as a model...
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    The following is the complete bibliography of John Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009), an American novelist, poet, critic and essayist noted for...
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  • as Christopher Walken, Stephen King as himself, Amy Tan as herself, John Updike as himself and Joe Mantegna as recurring character Fat Tony. Drew Barrymore...
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  • Rabbit, Run (category Novels by John Updike)
    Rabbit, Run is a 1960 novel by John Updike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry...
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    Linda Grace Hoyer Updike (1904–1989) was an American writer from Plowville, Pennsylvania. She was the mother of writer John Updike and grandmother of writer...
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  • them. The novel was generally well-received, with positive reviews from John Updike and The New York Times. The title of the book, according to Alan Cheuse...
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  • David Updike (born 1957) is an American writer and academic. Updike is the son of author John Updike, who used him as a model for characters in several...
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  • fictional city that serves as the major setting for American writer John Updike's "Rabbit" cycle of novels (comprising Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit...
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  • (1992) by Neal Stephenson Memories of the Ford Administration (1992) by John Updike Sarajevo Blues (1992) by Semezdin Mehmedinović The House of Doctor Dee...
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    The John Updike Childhood Home is the childhood home of American novelist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Updike, who lived there with his father...
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  • The Witches of Eastwick (category Novels by John Updike)
    The Witches of Eastwick is a 1984 novel by American writer John Updike. A sequel, The Widows of Eastwick, was published in 2008. The story, set in the...
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  • child of author John Updike, and was the model for several of his characters. She is married to Tete Cobblah. Elizabeth Pennington Updike was born in 1955...
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    prizes each in the Fiction category: Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. Because the award is for books published in the...
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  • Couples (novel) (category Novels by John Updike)
    Couples is a 1968 novel by American author John Updike. The novel depicts the lives of a promiscuous circle of ten couples in the small Massachusetts...
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    unfashionable in literary circles in the 1960s. After O'Hara's death, John Updike, an admirer of O'Hara's writing, said that the prolific author "out-produced...
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  • Henry Bech is a fictional character created by American author John Updike. Bech first appeared in assorted short stories, stories which were later compiled...
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  • Schocken Books in 1971. It was reprinted in 1995 with an introduction by John Updike. The collection includes all the works published during Kafka's lifetime...
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  • Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1981) Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1982) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983) Ironweed by William Kennedy...
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    Newspapers.com. Petersen, Clarence (1987-11-01). "Roger's Version, by John Updike (Fawcett/Crest, $4.95)". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original...
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    story (one of his best) appeared toward the back of the issue—behind a John Updike story—since, as it happened, Maxwell and other editors at the magazine...
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    Falling in Love; The Witches of Eastwick, adapted from the novel by John Updike; The Bonfire of the Vanities, adapted from the novel by Tom Wolfe and...
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  • positive book reviews, including mentions by notable critics such as John Updike and Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. The theory proposed by Jaynes influenced...
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  • from established American novelists, including John Updike and Norman Mailer. In addition, novelist John Irving criticized Wolfe's novel during an interview...
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  • Mercedes. The book is about the murder of reclusive writer John Rothstein (an amalgamation of John Updike, Philip Roth, and J. D. Salinger), his missing notebooks...
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    editor and vice-president after a career that included working with John Updike and Anne Tyler. Pat Knopf left his parents' publishing company in 1959...
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  • the idea that this is any way of honouring a writer." In an interview, John Updike lamented that "the category of 'literary fiction' has sprung up recently...
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  • The Witches of Eastwick is a novel by John Updike. The Witches of Eastwick may also refer to: The Witches of Eastwick (film), a 1987 adaptation of the...
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