Rabbit, Run Summary
John Updike

Rabbit, Run - John Updike - 1960 Introduction Rabbit, Run (1960) is the first of John Updike's quartet of novels about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a modern American anti-hero. Later ... Read more

Biography EssayA reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John Updike who is more in tune with the way most Americans live. Unconcerned with apocalypse in his fiction, und... Read more

"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," wrote Donald J. Greiner in Dictionary of Literary Bio... Read more

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. Following graduation (summa cum laude) in 1954 from Harvard University, where he was an English major and editor of the Harvard Lampoon, he studied f... Read more

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 Ra... Read more

Critical Essay by Roger Sale Rabbit Angstrom keeps coming back, like a song that says "remember." (p. 1) [He] and Updike have a relation that may be unique in literature. Once Arnold... Read more