Five years after his death, John Updike's life is well told here… but the rescue of his literary reputation must wait This respectful and sympathetic biography of John Updike (1932-2009) arrives just ...

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UPDIKE, by Adam Begley. Harper, 558 pp., $29.99. For more than half a century, John Updike streaked over the American literary landscape like a comet. A youthful prodigy at The New Yorker in the '50s, ...

John Updike (1932-2009) was a prodigy. Even early in his career, the salient aspects of his mature style and subject matter were evident. The vivid imagery, the erudition, the focus on characters' sex ...

In 1999,John Updike contributed an essay about what he called "the Judas biography" to the New York Review of Books. "I raise the possibility," he wrote, "that we resent a fiction writer's ...

John Updike, who died in 2009 at 76, was one of the best-known and most highly regarded American writers of the second half of the 20th century. He started publishing his work in The New Yorker as ...

During his lifetime, John Updike was acclaimed as one of the greatest writers of his generation, the poet laureate of middle-class, small-town, Protestant America. From the time he was a boy, ...

For more than half a century, John Updike streaked over the American literary landscape like a comet. A youthful prodigy at The New Yorker in the '50s, he soon made his mark as a fluent producer of ...