Who is John Updike
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 ...
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- Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
- A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
- Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
- The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
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