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| Name: |
John Updike | | Birth Date: |
March 18, 1932 | | Place of Birth: |
Shillington, Pennsylvania, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
author, poet |
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 Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike
19205 words, approx. 64 pages
 [This entry was updated by Donald J. Greiner (University of South Carolina) from his entry in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 250-276.] A reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John Updike... summary from source:
Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike
19166 words, approx. 63.9 pages
A reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John Updike whose work is more in tune with the way most Americans live. Unconcerned with apocalypse in his fiction, undeterred by the universal absurdity that threatens to negate th... summary from source:
Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike
14259 words, approx. 47.5 pages
While his stature as a short-story writer may be perpetually overshadowed by the novelistic achievements of the Rabbit tetralogy--Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990)--John Updike has exhibited a susta...
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 Gertrude and Claudius Information
487 words, approx. 2 pages
 Gertrude and Claudius is a novel by John Updike. It uses the known sources of Shakespeare's Hamlet to tell a story that draws on a rather straightforward revenge tale in the medieval Denmark depicted by Saxo Grammaticus in his twelfth-century Historiae...
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 The Christian Century Gertrude and Claudius.(Review) (book review)
02/23/2000: 792 words, approx. 3 pages Gertrude and Claudius. By John Updike. Knopf, 212 pp., $23.00. JOHN UPDIKE'S 19th novel, plotted as a "prequel" to Shakespeare's Hamlet, is a beautifully crafted, captivating story. Updike owes much of his thematic treatment to Shakespeare and to modern Shakespeare scholarship, but it... summary from source:
Publishers Weekly GERTRUDE AND CLAUDIUS.(Review) (book reviews)
01/03/2000: 402 words, approx. 1 pages JOHN UPDIKE. Knopf, $23 (208p) ISBN 0-375-40908-4 Precisely honed, buoyant with sly wit, masterful character analysis and astutely observed historical details, this tour de force by the protean Updike reimagines the circumstances leading to Shakepeare's Hamlet. To emphasize the ancient provenance of the...
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