John Updike

John Updike
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Biografía
Nacemento	18 de marzo de 1932 ; Reading, Estados Unidos de América (pt)
Morte	27 de xaneiro de 2009 (76 anos); Danvers, Estados Unidos de América (pt)
Causa da morte	cancro de pulmón
Lugar de sepultura	Robeson Lutheran Church Cemetery (en)
Relixión	Igrexa Anglicana
Educación	Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (en) (1954–); Universidade Harvard - literatura inglesa (1950–1954); Governor Mifflin Senior High School (en) ; Harvard College
Actividade
Ocupación	poeta, autor, crítico literario, escritor de ciencia ficción, escritor de literatura infantil, crítico de arte, ensaísta, dramaturgo, escritor, novelista, xornalista
Período de actividade	1959 -
Membro de	Academia Estadounidense das Artes e as Letras ; Academia das Artes e das Ciencias dos Estados Unidos ; PEN America (en)
Movemento	Literatura moderna (pt)
Influencias	Karl Barth, Fiódor Dostoievski, Franz Kafka, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, J.D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, Søren Kierkegaard, Henry James, Herman Melville, Arthur Schopenhauer, Vladimir Nabokov, John Cheever, Alice Munro, John Barth, Ernest Hemingway, Roger Angell (pt) , Italo Calvino, Henry Vincent Yorke (pt) , Truman Capote e James Thurber (pt)
Obra
	Obras destacables (1984) The Witches of Eastwick (en) ;
Arquivos en	Biblioteca do Congreso dos Estados Unidos de América ; University of Maryland Libraries (en) ;
Familia
Cónxuxe	Mary Entwistle Pennington ; Martha Ruggles Bernhard Updike
Fillos	David Updike; () Mary Entwistle Pennington; Elizabeth Updike Cobblah; () Mary Entwistle Pennington
Pais	Wesley Russell Updike e Linda Grace Hoyer
Premios
	(2008) Jefferson Lecture (en) ../... 25+ ;
	Sinatura
	Voz: John Updike (lingua inglesa)
Descrito pola fonte	Larousse Encyclopedia online (pt) ; Obálky knih, enllaç URL,; Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1 (en) , (p.508)

John Hoyer Updike, nado o 18 de marzo de 1932 en Reading, Pensilvania e finado o 27 de xaneiro de 2009 en Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, foi un escritor estadounidense.

Traxectoria

Foi un escritor prolífico, autor de novelas, relatos curtos, poesías, ensaios e críticas literarias, así como un libro de memorias persoais. Obtivo dous Premio Pulitzer en 1982 e 1991 por Rabbit Is Rich e Rabbit At Rest respectivamente, ademais doutros premios.

Obra

Novelas sobre Harry Rabbit

(1960) Rabbit, Run
(1971) Rabbit Redux
(1981) Rabbit Is Rich
(1990) Rabbit At Rest
(1995) Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels
(2001) Rabbit Remembered

Libros sobre Henry Bech

(1970) Bech, a Book
(1982) Bech Is Back
(1998) Bech at Bay
(2001) The Complete Henry Bech

Libros sobre James Buchanan

(1974) Buchanan Dying (teatro)
(1992) Memories of the Ford Administration (novela)

Libros sobre Eastwick

(1984) The Witches of Eastwick
(2008) The Widows of Eastwick

Outras novelas

(1959) The Poorhouse Fair
(1963) The Centaur
(1965) Of the Farm
(1968) Couples
(1977) Marry Me
(1978) The Coup
(1994) Brazil
(1996) In the Beauty of the Lilies
(1997) Toward the End of Time
(2000) Gertrude and Claudius
(2002) Seek My Face
(2004) Villages
(2006) Terrorista (Terrorist)

The Scarlet Letter Triloxía (A letra escarlata)

(1975) A Month of Sundays
(1986) Roger's Version
(1988) S.

Coleccións de contos curtos

(1959) The Same Door
(1962) Pigeon Feathers
(1964) Olinger Stories
(1966) The Music School
(1972) Museums And Women
(1979) Problems
(1979) Too Far To Go
(1987) Trust Me
(1994) The Afterlife
(2000) The Best American Short Stories of the Century
(2001) Licks of Love
(2003) The Early Stories: 1953–1975
(2009) My Father's Tears and Other Stories
(2009) The Maples Stories

Poesía

(1958) The Carpentered Hen
(1963) Telephone Poles
(1969) Midpoint
(1969) Dance of the Solids
(1974) Cunts: Upon Receiving The Swingers Life Club Membership Solicitation (limited edition)
(1977) Tossing and Turning
(1985) Facing Nature
(1993) Collected Poems 1953–1993
(2001) Americana: and Other Poems
(2009) Endpoint and Other Poems

Non ficción, ensaios e crítica

(1965) Assorted Prose
(1975) Picked-Up Pieces
(1983) Hugging The Shore
(1989) Self-Consciousness: Memoirs
(1989) Just Looking
(1991) Odd Jobs
(1996) Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf
(1999) More Matter
(2005) Still Looking: Essays on American Art
(2007) Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

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