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Authors: John Updike
ESSAYS AND CRITICISM
Assorted Prose
(1965)
• Picked-Up Pieces
(1975)
• Hugging the Shore
(1983)
• Just Looking
(1989)
• Odd Jobs
(1991)
• Golf Dreams
(1996) •
More Matter
(1999)
• Still Looking
(2005)
• Due Considerations
(2007) •
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
(2010)
• Higher Gossip
(2011)
PLAY
Buchanan Dying
(1974)
MEMOIRS
Self-Consciousness
(1989)
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
The Magic Flute
(1962)
• The Ring
(1964)
• A Child’s Calendar
(1965) •
Bottom’s Dream
(1969)
• A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects
(1996)
J
OHN
U
PDIKE
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.