[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...

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...

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...

Considered by critics to be one of the most significant American writers of the latter half of the twentieth century, John Updike is best known for his tetralogy of Rabbit novels (Rabbit, Run, 1960; Rabbit Redux, 1971; Rabbit is Rich, 1981; and Rabbit...

John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania) is an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered). Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at...

Nobel laureate for literature Nadine Gordimer, noted for her work about the inhumanity of apartheid, has become one of just a few South Africans to receive France's highest award, the Legion of Honor.Gordimer was awarded the decorative medal on at a ceremony over the weekend...

Cynthia Ozick stood before a full house of literary fans, her white hair shining as she assessed an art form that could be likened to an old, but vital patriarch _ rich, historic and, the author feared, increasingly neglected.The short story."In serious mainstream magazines nowadays,...

Today is Sunday, March 18, the 77th day of 2007. There are 288 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 18, 1937, some 300 people, mostly children, were killed in a gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas.On this date:In 1766,...

If book publishing is a horse race, this fall we’re being treated to a Nobel trifecta. In September, we have Slow Man (Viking), a bag of tricks from the newest laureate, J.M. Coetzee (b. 1940); in October, Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Knopf), a typically...

In the following essay, Wilson examines elements of social drama, historical consciousness, and tension between the desire for isolation and integration in Updike's Rabbit tetralogy.

In the following essay, Leckie examines the social, literary, and philosophical significance of marriage and infidelity as presented in Marry Me.

In the following essay, Fleischauer examines the language and syntax of Updike's prose, particularly aspects of irony, symbolism, and literary detachment evoked in his use of descriptive vocabulary and imagery.

A review of John Updike's novel Rabbit Redux, the second novel in the series featuring the character Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. The review includes an overview of the storyline along with an exploration of the novel's themes; these themes include the pursuit of freedom versus responsibility, the deterioration of the American dream, the absence of a hero in American culture, and the general tendency of one to run away from his/her duties and problems.

A comparison between Oates's "Where are you going, where have you been?" and Updike's "A&P."