Updike
[uhp-dahyk]
- John,1932–2009, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
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Contemporary Examples
Not anything like a tough-guy novelist who works the street the way Updike works the suburbs.
Then I think of the great writers of suburban misery (and drinking, and adultery), Updike and Cheever.
Recently in the Times, Dwight Garner remarked that five years after his death, “Updike seems like a Very Dead White Male indeed.”
Five Great Literary Homes, From Pemberley to Ruth’sMarch 18, 2014
Pope, Wharton, Nabokov, and Updike, to name only a handful, fail to register at all.
He picks his favorite books of criticism, from Updike to Edwidge Danticat.
How to Read a Novel: The 5 Best Books of Criticism, Picked by John FreemanJohn Freeman
October 8, 2013
Historical Examples
I feel like what Updike calls a "myrmidon of unhesitating amplitude."
Of All ThingsRobert C. Benchley
Updike tried his invariable first maneuver—touching her nervous wrist.
BabbittSinclair Lewis
Updike
- 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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