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John Hoyer Updike

Male : Novelist, Poet and short story writer
Nationality : American Place of Birth : Shillington, Pennsylvania

Date of Birth : 1932

Other Work : Worked for the New Yorker 1955-7

Education : Harvard & Ruskin Sch of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford
1958-1960
Seventy-five Aromatic Years of Leavitt & Peirce
(In - The Recollection of 31 Harvard Men)
(1958 Leavitt & Peirce, Cambs, Mass)
The Carpentered Hen & Other Tame Creatures
(1958 Harper) - 1st book in US
(in UK as "Hoping for a Hoopoe" 1959 Gollancz)
The Poorhouse Fair
(1959 Knopf) (1959 Gollancz)
The Same Door
(1959 Knopf) (1962 Deutsch) - ss
Rabbit Run
(1960 Knopf) (1961 Deutsch)
[Filmed in 1970]

1961-1970
Pigeon Feathers & Other Stories
(1962 Knopf) (1962 Deutsch) - ss
The Magic Flute
(1962 Knopf) (1964 London) - children's book
The Centaur
(1963 Knopf) (1963 Deutsch)
Telephone Poles & Other Poems
(1963 Knopf) (1963 Deutsch)
The Ring
(miscellany) (1964 Knopf) - Warren Chappell
Assorted prose
(1965 Knopf) (1965 Deutsch)
Of the Farm
(1965 Knopf) (1973 Deutsch)
The Music School
(1966 Knopf) (1967 Deutsch) - ss
A Child's Calendar
(1966 Knopf) - Nancy Ekholm Burkert
Couples
(1968 Knopf) (1968 Deutsch)
Bath After Sailing
(1968 County Squires, Monroe) - Signed Ltd Ed 125
The Angels
(1968 King & Queen Press) - Ltd Ed 50
Bottom's Dream : Adapted from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights' Dream
(1969 Knopf)
Midpoint and Other Poems
(1969 Knopf) (1969 Deutsch)
Bech : A Book
(1970 Knopf) - 500 signed (1970 Deutsch £1.50) - ss

1971-1975
Rabbit Redux
(1971 Knopf) (1972 Deutsch)
Museums and Women & Other Stories
(1972 Knopf) (1973 Deutsch) - ss
Seventy Poems
(1972 Penguin)
Six Poems
(1973 Aloe Editions)
Warm Wine : An Idyll
(1973 Albodocani Press) - ss
A Good Place
(1973 Aloe Editions NY) - Ltd Ed 100
Buchanan Dying
(1974 Knopf) (1974 Deutsch) - play
Cunts : Upon Receiving the Swingers Life Club Membership Solicitation
(1974 Frank Hallman NY)
Sunday in Boston
(1975 Rook Broadsides) - Ltd Ed 300. Broadside
A Month of Sundays
(1975 Knopf) - 450 signed (1975 Deutsch)
Picked-Up Pieces
(1975 Knopf) - 250 signed (1976 Deutsch)

1976-1980
Marry Me
(1976 Knopf) (1977 Deutsch £3.50)
Tossing and Turning
(1977 Knopf) (1977 Deutsch £3.50)
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
(1977 Lord John Press)
From the Journal of a Leper
(1978 Lord John Press)
The Coup
(1978 Knopf) (1979 Deutsch)
Problems & Other Stories
(1979 Knopf) - 350 signed (1980 Deutsch) - ss
To Far to Go : The Maples Stories
(1979 Fawcett) - ss
16 Sonnets
(1979 Ferguson)
An Oddly Lovely Day Alone
(1979 Waves Press, Richmond, Virginia) - Broadside
Talk from the Fifties
(1979 Lord John Press)
Three Illuminations in the Life of an American Author
(1979 Targ Editions) - 350 signed
Ego and Art in Walt Whitman
(1980 Targ editions)

1981-1985
Rabbit is Rich
(1981 Knopf) (1982 Deutsch £7.95) - Pulitzer Prize
Hawthorne's Creed
(1981 Targ, NY)
Bech is Back
(1982 Knopf) (1983 Deutsch)
The Beloved
(1983 Lord John Press) - Signed Ltd Ed
Hugging the Shore
(1983 Knopf) (1984 Deutsch)
Confessions of a Wild Bore
(1984 Tamazunchale Press)
Jester's Dozen
(1984 Lord John Press)
The Witches of Eastwick
(1984 Knopf) (1984 Deutsch)
[Filmed in 1987]
Facing Nature
(1985 Knopf) (1986 Deutsch)
Emersonianism
(1985 Ewert)

1986-1990
A Pear Like a Potato
(1986 Santa Susanna Press US)
Roger's Version
(1986 Knopf) (1986 Deutsch)
Getting Older
(1986 Eurographica, Helsinki) - 350 signed & numbered
Trust Me
(1987 Knopf) (1987 Deutsch) - ss
The Afterlife & Other Stories
(1987 Sixth Chamber Press) - ss - 175 signed
Two Sonnets
(1987 Wind River Press US)
More Stately Mansions
(1987 Nouveau Press)
Getting the Words Out
(1988 Lord John Press)
S : A Novel
(1988 Knopf) (1988 Deutsch)
Self-Consciousness : Memoirs
(1989 Knopf) (1989 Deutsch £12.95)
Just Looking : Essays on Art
(1989 Knopf) - 350 signed (1989 Deutsch)
Brother Grasshopper
(1990 Metacom Press)
Recent Poems 1986-1990
(1990 Eurographica, Helsinki) - 350 signed & numbered
Rabbit at Rest
(1990 Knopf) (1991 Andre Deutsch £14.99) - PULITZER PRIZE

After 1991
Odd Jobs - Essays & criticism
(1991 Knopf) (1992 Deutsch £20)
Memories of the Ford Administration
(1993 Hamish Hamilton £15.99)
Brazil
(1994 Knopf) (1994 Hamish Hamilton £14.99) - ss
The Afterlife & Other Stories
(1994 Knopf) (1995 H Hamilton £14.99) - ss
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas
(1994 Gotham Book Mart, NY) - 36pp pamphlet. Edward Gorey
In the Beauty of the Lilies
(1996 Hamish Hamilton £16)
Toward the End of Time
(1997 Knopf) (1998 Hamish Hamilton £16.99)
Bech at Bay : A Quasi-Novel
(1999 Hamish Hamilton £16.99)
Gertrude and Claudius
(2000 Knopf) (2000 Hamish Hamilton £16.99)
Licks of Love : Short Stories and a Sequel 'Rabbit Remembered'
(2000 Knopf)
(2000 Hamish Hamilton £16.99)
Seek My Face
(2003 Hamish Hamilton £16.99)
The Early Stories 1953-1975
(2004 Hamish Hamilton £25)
Villages
(2005 Viking £16.99)