Biographies

John Updike Biography: Pegasos

Academy of Achievement

Wikipedia: John Updike

John Updike: Grade Saver

Notable Biographies

Due Considerations

More Matter: Essays and Criticism

The Cambridge Companion to John Updike

 

Novels

Fantastic Fiction

NNDB

"Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper." John Updike 1977

 

Articles

Research Papers: The Ex-Basketball Player by John Updike

John Updike, A man of his time : Celebrate a Life

John Updike's literary via negative: Christian Century

Updike Reconsidered: A Literature and Criticism Blog by Daniel Green

 

Interviews

Audio Interview with John Updike: Wired for Books

Secrets of a sexual innocent by Ginny Dougary

In Depth with John Updike: C-Span Video Library

National Book Foundation Archives: Interview with John Updike

A Salon Interview with John Updike by Dwight Garner

"I think “taste” is a social concept and not an artistic one. I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another’s brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves. " John Updike 1977

Reviews

No Way by Christopher Hitchens: The Atlantic

Rabbit at Rest: New York Book Review

The Witches of Eastwick: Green Man Review

John Updike Reads from His Novel 'Terrorist': Book Tour by Linda Kulman

Rabbit, Run

The Centaur

Terrorist

Student Resoures

Updike Home page

Composing Descriptions with John Updike by Richard Nordquist

George J. Searles: Classroom Issues and Strategies, Heath

An Updike Geography

Joyce Carol Oates on John Updike

Terrorist by John Updike - Discussion Questions

A Selective Bibliography: Literary History

Timeline of John Updike

Villages

The Women Who Got Away

Couples

"We walk through volumes of the unexpressed and like snails leave behind a faint thread excreted out of ourselves."
John Updike, "The Blessed Man of Boston"

 

Forum Debates

Literary Kicks

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