John Cheever and John Updike enjoyed an occasionally antagonistic relationship over the years—not long after they met, Cheever dreamt that Updike was trying to kill him—but their mutual admiration, ...

John Updike's childhood home in Pennsylvania, has been purchased by a group that plans to restore it and turn it into a museum. The John Updike Society bought the home in Shillington, about 80 km ...

I read John Updike’s “Rabbit at Rest” while in Japan, and quickly worked my way backwards to the rest of the “Rabbit” quartet, and eventually through all of Updike’s stories. There seemed to me not ...

It’s hard to believe the literary reputation of John Updike is still up for debate. At least it feels like it is. As the novelist was approaching senescence around the turn of the century, critics ...

Author John Updike’s childhood home in Shillington will become a museum and literary landmark, advancing previously expressed dreams by the John Updike Society. “We expect to have the main rooms in ...

Did John Updike—renowned and prolific chronicler of American ennui, often manifested in copious adultery—yearn for everlasting life in his final days? “Did this super successful man, superated in sin ...

According to the Associated Press, acclaimed writer John Updike has died. Updike spoke in Syracuse in 1997, as part of the Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series. I was new to the literary beat back then, ...

John Updike, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in small-town, middle-class America, died Tuesday. He ...

John Updike, one of the most prolific and popular American authors of his generation who chronicled the drama of everyday suburban life, died Tuesday, his publisher said. Writer Nicholas Delbanco, a ...

John Updike was the first person to make me laugh. I don’t remember this, but I have it on good authority: My father, who was his classmate at college, just sent me this sketch of the scene. The place ...

In “Without Consent,” Sarah Weinman looks at a shocking 1978 case — and women’s ongoing struggle for justice. By Rachel Louise Snyder The prolific novelist’s correspondence, collected for the first ...