John Updike
American novelist and critic whose Rabbit tetralogy is a panoramic record of American life in the second half of the twentieth century. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice and was one of the dominant figures in American literary culture. His prose style is among the most celebrated in American fiction.
Works
- Rabbit RunNovel about a restless basketball player's flight from suburban life and consequences
- Rabbit ReduxNovel following Rabbit's reentry into society during the turbulent Vietnam War era
- Rabbit Is RichNovel showing Rabbit's wealth and reflections on mortality during economic prosperity
- Rabbit at RestFinal Rabbit novel depicting his aging, illness, and reckoning with a life poorly lived
- The Witches of EastwickNovel about three witches seducing and entangling a man in supernatural sensuality
- Rabbit, RunNovel about a restless basketball player's flight from suburban life and consequences