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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • (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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • The Witches of Eastwick (film) (category Films scored by John Williams)
    Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon as the titular witches. The film is based on John Updike's 1984 novel of the same name. In the film, three career women are unaware...
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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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