John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. 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 of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
“Brilliant and poignant . . . By his compassion, clarity of
insight, and crystal-bright prose, [John Updike] makes Rabbit’s
sorrow his and our own.”—The Washington Post
“The power of the novel comes from a sense, not absolutely unworthy
of Thomas Hardy, that the universe hangs over our fates like a
great sullen hopeless sky. There is real pain in the book, and a
touch of awe.”—Norman Mailer, Esquire
“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that
is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable
control.”—Kansas City Star
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