John Updike (1932–2009)
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American novelist, poet, and critic John Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on March 18, 1932. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard University, which he attended on a scholarship, in 1954. After graduation, he accepted a one-year fellowship to study painting at the Ruskin School of Drawing visa mer and Fine Art in Oxford, England. After returning from England in 1955, he worked for two years on the staff of The New Yorker. This marked the beginning of a long relationship with the magazine, during which he has contributed numerous short stories, poems, and book reviews. Although Updike's first published book was a collection of verse, The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures (1958), his renown as a writer is based on his fiction, beginning with The Poorhouse Fair (1959). During his lifetime, he wrote more than 50 books and primarily focused on middle-class America and their major concerns---marriage, divorce, religion, materialism, and sex. Among his best-known works are the Rabbit tetrology---Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1988). Rabbit, Run introduces Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom as a 26-year-old salesman of dime-store gadgets trapped in an unhappy marriage in a dismal Pennsylvania town, looking back wistfully on his days as a high school basketball star. Rabbit Redux takes up the story 10 years later, and Rabbit's relationship with representative figures of the 1960s enables Updike to provide social commentary in a story marked by mellow wisdom and compassion in spite of some shocking jolts. In Rabbit Is Rich, Harry is comfortably middle-aged and complacent, and much of the book seems to satirize the country-club set and the swinging sexual/social life of Rabbit and his friends. Finally, in Rabbit at Rest, Harry arrives at the age where he must confront his mortality. Updike won the Pulitzer Prize for both Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit at Rest. Updike's other novels range widely in subject and locale, from The Poorhouse Fair, about a home for the aged that seems to be a microcosm for society as a whole, through The Court (1978), about a revolution in Africa, to The Witches of Eastwick (1984), in which Updike tries to write from inside the sensibilities of three witches in contemporary New England. The Centaur (1963) is a subtle, complicated allegorical novel that won Updike the National Book Award in 1964. In addition to his novels, Updike also has written short stories, poems, critical essays, and reviews. Self-Consciousness (1989) is a memoir of his early life, his thoughts on issues such as the Vietnam War, and his attitude toward religion. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. He died of lung cancer on January 27, 2009 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. Since 1957 he has lived in Massachusetts. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, & the Howells Medal. (Publisher Provided) John Updike was born in 1932 and attended Harvard College and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, England. Form 1955 to 1957 he was a staff member of The New Yorker, which he contributed numerous writings. Updike's art criticism has appeared in publications including Arts and Antiques, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, and Realites, among many others. He is the author of such best-selling novels as Rabbit Run and Rabbit is Rich. His many works of fiction, poetry and criticism have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. For the past 40 years he has lived in Massachusetts. (Publisher Provided) John Updike is the author of some 50 books, including collections of short stories, poems, & criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, & the Howells Medal. Born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932, he has lived in Massachusetts since 1957. (Publisher Provided) visa färre
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Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Updike, John Hoyer
- Födelsedag
- 1932-03-18
- Avled
- 2009-01-27
- Begravningsplats
- Danvers, Massachusetts, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
- Dödsort
- Danvers, Massachusetts, USA
- Dödsorsak
- cancer (lung)
- Bostadsorter
- West Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Shillington, Pennsylvania, USA
Plowville, Pennsylvania, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Rockport, Massachusetts, USA (visa alla 9)
Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
Georgetown, Massachusetts, USA
Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, USA - Utbildning
- Harvard College (AB, summa cum laude|1954)
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford - Yrken
- writer
- Relationer
- Hoyer, Linda Grace (parent)
Updike, David (child)
Updike, Mary (aunt)
Jones, Judith (editor) - Organisationer
- Harvard Lampoon
The New Yorker - Priser och utmärkelser
- National Book Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (1998)
PEN/Malamud Award (1988)
National Medal of Arts (1989)
National Humanities Medal (2003)
Bad Sex in Fiction (2008)
Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters (2007) (visa alla 38)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (1964)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1964)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1976)
Cover of "Time" magazine (1968 ∙ 1981)
Signet Society Medal for Achievement in the Arts (1971)
Library of Congress, Honorary Consultant in American Letters ( 1972)
Recorded by "The Spoken Arts Treasury of 100 American Poets" (1972)
Lecturer, Centro Venezolano Americano (1972)
Lincoln Lectureship from the Fulbright Board of Foreign Scholarships (1973)
Lafayette College, honorary Doctor of Literature (1974)
Lotus Club Award of Merit (1975)
Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist Award (1983)
Lincoln Literary Award, Union League Club (1983)
National Arts Club Medal of Honor (1984)
Kutztown University Foundation's Director Award (1985)
Exhibit of work at M.D. Anderson Library of the University of Houston (1985)
Peggy Varnadow Helmerich Award (1987)
Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Fiction (1987)
Brandeis University Life Achievement Award (1988)
First annual PEN/Malamud Memorial Reading (1988)
Conch Republic Prize for Literature (1993)
Howells Medal (1995)
Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France (1995)
Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture (1996)
Campion Award (1997)
Harvard Arts First Medal (1998)
Thomas Cooper Library Medal (1998)
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2005)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2002)
Jefferson Lecture (2008)
multiple honorary doctorates
Bowdoin Prize (1954) - Agent
- William Loverd
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
John Updike i Library of America Subscribers (november 2022)
What's your vote for the worst movie made of a good book? i Jo's Book Group (september 2022)
John Updike: American Author Challenge i 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (december 2014)
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Första boken jag läser av John Updike men absolut inte den sista. En stark kärleksberättelse på Tristan och Isolde temat. Överklassflickan och den fattige svarte pojken vars kärlek utsätts för prövningar från det etablerade etablissemanget. Samtidigt är det också en äventyrsberättelse och en fabel. Språkligt fulländad. Nästa gång ska jag läsa något av hans mer kända verk.
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