[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...

A 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, undeterred by the universal absurdity that threatens to negate the...

"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 Biography. Greiner went on to note in his entry on...

During his college years John Updike was a graphic artist, especially adept as a cartoonist and draftsman, and this very literal sense of style has been the most distinguishing factor in his novels and stories. He is a master of the well-crafted...

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 for one year on a Knox fellowship at the Ruskin...

Author John Updike (born 1932) mirrored his America in poems, short stories, essays, and novels, especially the four-volume "Rabbit" series. John Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. His father, Wesley, was a high school...