John Updike

John Updike

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1932-03-18
Deathday: 2009-01-27 (76 years old)

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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.


Updike's 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 chronicled the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to his death. Both Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit At Rest (1990) received the Pulitzer Prize. He is one of only three authors (the others being Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Updike published more than twenty novels and more than a dozen short story collections, as well as poetry, art criticism, literary criticism and children's books. 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.


Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class", Updike was well recognized for his careful craftsmanship, his unique prose style, and his prolificness. He wrote on average a book a year. 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 a significant amount of critical attention and praise, and he is widely considered to be 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 extravagantly describes the physical world, while remaining squarely in the realist tradition. Updike famously described his own style as an attempt "to give the mundane its beautiful due."


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Known For
Writing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1932-03-18

Deathday
2009-01-27 (76 years old)

Birth Place
Reading, United States of America

Religion
Anglicanism

Children
David Updike, Elizabeth Updike Cobblah

Father
Wesley Russell Updike

Mother
Linda Grace Hoyer

Citizenships
United States of America

Awards
Carl Sandburg Literary Award, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, St. Louis Literary Award, Jefferson Lecture, Helmerich Award, Golden Rose Award, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, Bowdoin prize, Ambassador Book Award, National Book Award for Fiction, William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Rea Award for the Short Story, National Medal of Arts, National Humanities Medal, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, honorary doctor of Harvard University, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, O. Henry Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award


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