Library of America's definitive Updike edition continues with three masterful novels on the joys and the discontents of the sexual revolution
John Updike(1932-2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He
graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford,
England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to
1957 he was a member of the staff ofThe New Yorker.He is the author
of more than sixty books, including collections of short stories,
poems, essays, and criticism. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize,
the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle, and the
Howells Medal, among other honors.
Christopher Carduff is Books Editor of The Wall Street Journal and
a former consulting editor at the Library of America. He is the
editor of John Updike's posthumous collectionsHigher Gossip- Essays
and Criticism,Always Looking- Essays on Art, Selected Poems, and
Collected Stories.
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