John Updike
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 John Updike facts

• Updike's most famous work is his "Rabbit" series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; and the novella Rabbit Remembered), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death
• Both Rabbit Is Rich (1982) and Rabbit at Rest (1990) were recognized with the Pulitzer Prize
• Updike is one of only three authors to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others were Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner)
• Updike published more than twenty novels and more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art criticism, literary criticism and children's books
• Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in 1954
• He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books
• Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class," Updike was recognized for his careful craftsmanship, his unique prose style, and his prolific output – he wrote on average a book a year
• Updike populated his fiction with characters who "frequently experience personal turmoil and must respond to crises relating to religion, family obligations, and marital infidelity
• His fiction is distinguished by its attention to the concerns, passions, and suffering of average Americans; its emphasis on Christian theology; and its preoccupation with sexuality and sensual detail
• His work has attracted significant critical attention and praise, and he is widely considered one of the great American writers of his time