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John Updike

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John Updike

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Also known as John Hoyer Updike

American novelist, poet (1932–2009)

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John Updike (18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009) was an American poet and author. His professional career began in 1959. He is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Pulitzer Prize collection.

Among his notable works are *Rabbit, Run*, *American Voices*, *Sunday in Boston*, *Adopting a Dog*, and *THE AFTER LIFE*. His bibliography includes 1,019 works. Other artists associated with his style include Mark Strand, Richard Wilbur, Galway Kinnell, Robert Lowell, and Jill McCorkle.

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Person · Open Library

Born
18 March 1932
Died
27 January 2009
Works
1019

Top works

  • Rabbit, Run
  • American Voices
  • Sunday in Boston
  • Adopting a Dog
  • THE AFTER LIFE

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1932-03-18
Active to
2009-01-27
poet
Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
978
Total plays
10,278

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Mark StrandRichard WilburGalway KinnellRobert LowellJill McCorkle

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and the novella "Rabbit Remembered") which chronicled the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to his death. Both Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit At Rest (1990) received the Pulitzer Prize. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Updike">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 204,615x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,656x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,917x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 35,587x

  5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    · 1992 · cited 29,134x

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Quotes

  • “The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea … the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices.”
  • “If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.”
  • “One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”
  • “At last, small witches, goblins, hags,And pirates armed with paper bags,Their costumes hinged on safety pins,Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.”
  • “The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.”
  • “I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.”

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Encyclopedic overview

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.

Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; and the novella Rabbit Remembered), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death. Both Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990) were awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

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