John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (Shillington, Pensilvanija, 18.3. 1932. - Danvers, Massachusetts, 27.1. 2009.) bio je američki pisac. Updikeovo najpotznatije djelo je Rabbit ciklus (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest i Rabbit Remembered). Rabbit is Rich i Rabbit at Rest su osovojila Pulitzerove nagrade. Poznat po tome što voli opisivati "američke protestantske gradiće sa srednjom klasom," Updike je poznat po stilu i plodnom opusu, koji se sastoji od 22 objavljena romana, više od deset zbirki novela, kao i poeziji, književnoj kritici i dječjim knjigama. Stotina priča, recenzija i pjesama su se pojavljivale u The New Yorkeru od 1950-ih. Većina djela se bavi seksom, vjerom i smrću, te njihovim međuodnosima.

John Updike
John Updike prima National Medal of Arts godine 1989
Biografske informacije
Rođenje	(1932-03-18)18. 3. 1932. Reading, Pennsylvanija, SAD
Smrt	27. januara 2009. (dob: 76) Danvers, Massachusetts
Obrazovanje
Zanimanje	romanopisac, novelist, književni kritičlar
Opus
Književne vrste	Modernizam, realistička književnost
Znamenita djela
Rabbit Angstrom
Inspiracija
Od Ernest Hemingway, Henry Green, James Joyce, Søren Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, John Cheever, Karl Barth, William Shakespeare, James Thurber[1]
Na Ann Beattie, Alice Munro, George Saunders, Nicholson Baker, Ian McEwan, Rick Moody, Joseph O'Neill, Martin Amis, Lloyd Kropp, Ceridwen Dovey, David Baddiel, Jonathan Lethem, Richard Ford, T. Coraghessan Boyle[2]

Književna djela

Romani o Rabbitu

• (1960) Rabbit, Run
• (1971) Rabbit Redux
• (1981) Rabbit Is Rich
• (1990) Rabbit At Rest
• (2000) Rabbit Remembered (pripovjetka u zbirci Licks of Love)

Knjige o Bechu

• (1970) Bech, a Book
• (1982) Bech Is Back
• (1998) Bech at Bay

Knjige o Buchananu

• (1974) Buchanan Dying (drama)
• (1992) Memories of the Ford Administration (roman)

Ostali romani

• (1959) The Poorhouse Fair
• (1963) The Centaur
• (1965) Of The Farm
• (1968) Couples
• (1975) A Month Of Sundays
• (1977) Marry Me (A Romance)
• (1978) The Coup
• (1984) The Witches of Eastwick
• (1986) Roger's Version
• (1988) S.
• (1994) Brazil
• (1996) In the Beauty of the Lilies
• (1997) Toward the End of Time
• (2000) Gertrude and Claudius
• (2002) Seek My Face
• (2004) Villages
• (2006) Terrorist

Zbirke novela

• (1959) The Same Door
• (1962) Pigeon Feathers
• (1962) A&P
• (1964) Olinger Stories (izbor)
• (1966) The Music School
• (1972) Museums And Women
• (1979) Problems
• (1979) Too Far To Go (zbirka novela o jednoj prodioci)
• (1987) Trust Me
• (1994) The Afterlife
• (2000) The Best American Short Stories of the Century (urednik)
• (2001) Licks of Love
• (2003) The Early Stories: 1953-1975

Poezija

• (1958) Ex-Basketball Player
• (1958) The Carpentered Hen
• (1963) Telephone Poles
• (1969) Midpoint
• (1977) Tossing and Turning
• (1985) Facing Nature
• (1993) Kollected Poems 1953-1993
• (2001) Americana: and Other Poems

Publicistika, eseji i kritika

• (1965) Assorted Prose
• (1975) Picked-Up Pieces
• (1983) Hugging The Shore
• (1989) Self-Consciousness: Memoirs
• (1989) Just Looking
• (1991) Odd Jobs
• (1993) The Disposable Rocket
• (1996) Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf
• (1999) More Matter
• (2005) Still Looking: Essays on American Art
• (2007) Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

Djeje knjige

• (1962) The Magic Flute
• (1964) The Ring
• (1965) A Child's Calendar
• (1969) Bottom's Dream
• (1995) A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects
• (2006) The Twelve Terrors of Christmas