'Gossip of a higher sort' was how John Updike described the art of the review. Here, then, is the last collection of his most dazzling gossip, compiled shortly before his death in 2009.
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is
the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair; the
Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At
Rest); Marry Me; The Witches of Eastwick, which was made into a
major feature film; Memories of the Ford Administration; Brazil; In
the Beauty of the Lilies; Toward the End of Time; Gertrude and
Claudius; and Seek My Face. He has written a number of collections
of short stories, including The Afterlife and Other Stories and
Licks of Love, which includes a final Rabbit story, Rabbit
Remembered. His essays and criticism first appeared in publications
such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and are
now collected into numerous volumes. Collected Poems 1953-1993
brings together almost all of his verse, and a new edition of his
Selected Poems is forthcoming from Hamish Hamilton.
His novels, stories, and non-fiction collections have won have won
the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner
Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle
Award, the Rosenthal Award and the Howells Medal.
Updike graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at
Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957
he was a member of staff at the New Yorker, and he lived in
Massachusetts from 1957 until his death in January 2009.
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