Updike is the author of more than fifty books. earning virtually every American literary award, repeated bestsellerdom and the near-royal status of the American author-celebrity.' imposing stance on the literary landscape. and in its tone of vulgar bonhomie and good appetite.' The Los Angeles Times noted that he 'has earned an. Disch wrote in Poetry magazine, 'Updike enjoys such pre-eminence as a novelist that his poetry could be mistaken as a hobby or a foible,' adding, 'It is a poetry of civility-in its epigrammatical lucidity. Updike received his BA from Harvard University in 1954, the year he began to publish in The New Yorker. His father taught high school math, and his mother wrote short stories and novels. RosettaBooks is proud to publish the complete Rabbit set Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich (National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize), Rabbit at Rest (Pulitzer Prize) and Rabbit Remembered.Poet, essayist, short-story writer, critic, and novelist John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, on March 18, 1932.

He has won many other prestigious literary awards.

John Updike is only one of three Americans to win two Pulitzer Prizes (the others are Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner). John Updike was born in 1932 in Pennsylvania and has published more than 30 novels plus works of poetry, short stories and essays. The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first order. In Rabbit Redux, Harry Angstrom - known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters - finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. Rabbit Redux is the second of five John Updike Rabbit novels, all of which focus on their central character Harry Angstrom. He turns out the flaws in his characters and relationships, simultaneously affirming their worth. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and several other accolades for his dry, sulky novels chronicling the life of ex-basketball player 'Rabbit' Angstrom, John Updike has become a legendary American author.

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