John Updike
18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009
1,024 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in *The New Yorker* starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for *The New York Review of Books.* His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series, which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death.
Also published as: John Hoyer Updike, UPDIKE,J, J Updike, dust jacket design by author John Updike, John UPDIKE, John. Updike
Most-read books
Rabbit, Run
3.9 · 1960 · 79 want to read
The Witches of Eastwick
3.8 · 1779 · 53 want to read
Couples
4 · 1968 · 54 want to read
Fifty Best American Short Stories
1965 · 57 want to read
Great Short Stories of the World
1972 · 55 want to read
![Cover of The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6699609-M.jpg)
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
4 · 1952 · 44 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
1999 · 35 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
1989 · 28 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
4 · 1994 · 25 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
1991 · 25 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
2002 · 24 want to read
A Child's Calendar
5 · 1656 · 15 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
1989 · 20 want to read
Rabbit Redux
3.5 · 1961 · 12 want to read
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
4.3 · 1973 · 14 want to read
Rabbit at rest
4.5 · 1990 · 10 want to read
Best Short Stories -- Advanced Level
4 · 1980 · 15 want to read
The Centaur
4 · 1962 · 13 want to read
![Cover of Great American Short Stories [34 stories]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/9378337-M.jpg)
Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
1977 · 14 want to read
Gertrude and Claudius
4 · 2000 · 13 want to read
Rabbit is rich
4 · 1981 · 10 want to read
Terrorist
3 · 2006 · 10 want to read
Rabbit Is Rich
3.3 · 1997 · 7 want to read
The best American short stories of the century
1999 · 12 want to read