John Updike
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 Updike in 1989 | |||
| Born |
John Hoyer Updike 18 Mairch 1932 Reading, Pennsylvanie, Unitit States | ||
| Dee'd |
Januar 27, 2009 (aged 76) Danvers, Massachusetts, Unitit States | ||
| Thrift | novelist, short story writer, leeterar creetic | ||
| Genre | Leeterar realism | ||
| Notable warks |
Rabbit Angstrom novelles Henry Bech stories The Witches of Eastwick | ||
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John Hoyer Updike (Mairch 18, 1932 – Januar 27, 2009) wis an American novelist, poet, short story writer, airt creetic, an leeterar creetic. Ane o anerly three writers tae win the Pulitzer Prize for Feection mair nor ance (the ithers war Booth Tarkington an William Faulkner), Updike published mair nor twenty novelles, mair nor a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, airt an leeterar creeticism an childer's beuks during his career. Hunders o his stories, reviews, an poems appeared in The New Yorker stairtin in 1954. He an aa wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. His maist famous wark is his "Rabbit" series (the novelles Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; an the novella Rabbit Remembered), which chronicles the life o the middle-cless everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom ower the coorse o several decades, frae young adulthuid tae daith. Baith Rabbit Is Rich (1982) an Rabbit at Rest (1990) war recognised wi the Pulitzer Prize.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ "John Updike". Front Row. 31 October 2008. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "American Centaur: An Interview with John Updike". The New Yorker.
- 1932 births
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- American childer's writers
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- American leeterar creetics
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- 20t-century American poets
- Christian writers
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- Alumni o the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
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- Members o the American Academy o Airts an Letters
- National Book Awaird winners
- O. Henry Awaird winners
- Pulitzer Prize for Feection winners
- PEN/Faulkner Awaird for Feection winners
- PEN/Malamud Awaird winners
- Unitit States Naitional Medal o Airts recipients
- Naitional Humanities Medal recipients
- Fowk frae Danvers, Massachusetts
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- Writers frae Reading, Pennsylvanie
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- 21st-century American poets
- American male poets
- The New Yorker fowk
- American male essayists
- American erotica writers
- American male short story writers
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