Together the novels form a revealing chronicle of the complex changes occurring in American culture between the 1950s and the late 1980s.
Rabbit, Run, a novel of a former basketball star and his floundering marriage set in the late 1950s, was the first of what has become a series of four novels about the protagonist and his family. Updike’s work, in general, was highly respected, his outstanding career as a poet was distinguished with successful volumes of poems which are considered to be one of his best works. After completing school he returned to America where began to contribute to ‘The New Yorker’ at a regular basis marking the beginning of a remarkable writing career. To pursue this goal he entered the ‘The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts’ at the University of Oxford. Updike’s initial desire was to become a cartoonist. Updike was the only child of Wesley Russell Updike, a mathematics teacher and an aspiring writer Linda Grace Hoyer. He was born on 18th March 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania.
John Hoyer Updike was an American writer, poet, literary critic and novelist.
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