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John Hoyer Updike ( Reading, Pennsylvania, 1932. március 18. – Danvers, Massachusetts, 2009. január 27.) amerikai regényíró, költő, novellista, irodalom- és műkritikus. Legismertebb regényei közé tartozik az úgynevezett „Nyúl”-sorozat. Az öt regényből álló széria címeiben a Nyúl (Rabbit) név a történetek ...
Oct 23, 2015 · We asked Mr. Carduff to choose ten of his favorite books by Updike in a variety of genres. 1. Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy - Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; and Rabbit at Rest: this ...
Mar 21, 2022 · John Updike (b. 1932–d. 2009) was an immensely versatile and prolific writer who produced more than sixty volumes, including novels, short stories, literary and art criticism, poems, children’s books, a memoir, and a play. A distinguished “man of letters,” Updike excelled at not simply one genre but three: the novel, short fiction, and ...
Oct 27, 2009 · We interviewed John Updike in Zagreb, Croatia, on October 21, 1978. He had arrived a day earlier. Tall, gray-haired, tired, and suffering from a cold, Updike talked to us for an hour over coffee ...
Jan 28, 2009 · John Hoyer Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Reading, Pa., and grew up in the nearby town of Shillington. He was the only child of Wesley Russell Updike, ...
Jan 27, 2009 · January 27, 2009. John Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and spent his first years in nearby Shillington, a small town where his father was a high school science teacher. The area surrounding Reading has provided the setting for many of his stories, with the invented towns of Brewer and Olinger standing in for Reading and Shillington.
Apr 21, 2014 · During the Second World War, Updike’s mother, Linda, worked in a parachute factory, and she managed to save enough money to buy back her father’s eighty-three-acre farm, in Plowville, eleven ...
