Updike

[uhp-dahyk]

noun

1. John, 1932–2009, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

Updike

/ ˈʌpˌdaɪk /

noun

1. John ( Hoyer ). 1932–2009, US writer. His novels include Rabbit, Run (1960), Couples (1968), The Coup (1979), Brazil (1993), Seek My Face (2003), and Rabbit is Rich (1982) and Rabbit at Rest (1990), both of which won Pulitzer prizes

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For writers in the 1960s, middle-class infidelity offered a keyhole to deeper social themes—“the relation of individual to collective decadence,” the critic Wilfrid Sheed wrote of Updike’s fiction.

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John Updike was among the most prolific writers of American fiction and criticism during his lifetime.

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John Updike worried that success would make him lazy.

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In many ways, this frame of mind persisted, animating Updike’s astonishingly prolific literary career.

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It was hailed by John Updike as a "Tiger Woodesian debut" and made her a celebrity at 36.

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