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John Updike was a Pulitzer-prize winning author of novels, verse, essays and criticism. He is perhaps best known for a series of novels about an ordinary American man named Harry Rabbit Angstrom.

SHILLINGTON, Pa.- A special event took place Friday at John Updike's Childhood home celebrating what would have been the author's 90 th birthday. "We decided that this 1st birthday after our grand ...

In “Without Consent,” Sarah Weinman looks at a shocking 1978 case — and women’s ongoing struggle for justice. By Rachel Louise Snyder The prolific novelist’s correspondence, collected for the first ...

Using their hands as tiny shovels, a group of kids formed small holes in the loose soil. They carefully removed an assortment of young plants from their plastic containers and placed them inside, ...

What everybody always comes back to is the style–that thing Updike did with words that other writers couldn’t. They loved it, they quoted it, they studied it, they tried to rip it off. Sometimes they ...

It's not quite the Nobel Prize, but John Updike has a new literary accolade: laureate of bad sex. Updike, 76, who has a long history of detailing coupling on the page, won a lifetime achievement award ...

Even in his last photographs, after his hair had turned white and he had taken to peering out at the world over reading glasses, John Updike could still seem boyish. His eyes, in particular, often ...

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