Updike

American  

[uhp-dahyk] / ˈʌpˌdaɪk /

noun

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

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Updike British  

/ 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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Example Sentences

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From The Wall Street Journal

John Updike worried that success would make him lazy.

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Updike appreciated cats, adored Doris Day, was always eager “to do right, and reap the appropriate praise.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From BBC