Updike
Updike is a surname, most notably associated with John Updike (1932–2009), the American novelist and critic known for literary explorations of middle-class suburban life, sexuality, and Protestant anxiety.
His Rabbit series followed one man through four decades of American change.
The prose had an Updike-like attention to domestic detail.
Writer of prose narratives
- writerCreator of texts
- short storiesBrief prose narratives
- New YorkerResident of a major metropolis
- essayistAuthor of short prose
critic · poet · chronicler · man of letters · reviewer · literary voice · wordsmith · storyteller
Elite American letters award
- National Book AwardU.S. literary honor
- fictionImagined narrative work
- suburbanOf residential outskirts
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
Protestant · mortality · middle-class · domesticity · sexuality · marriage · infidelity · angst
Prose with musical quality
- descriptivePortraying with specific details
- sensuousPleasing to the body
- preciseExactly correct, no error
- observationalBased on direct perception
elegant · vivid imagery · introspective · psychological depth · ironic · witty · detailed · naturalistic
Intermediate socioeconomic group
- marriageFormal union between partners
- infidelityDisloyalty to a partner
- religionSystem of spiritual belief
- faithTrust without proof
doubt · mortality · aging · sexuality · consumerism · disillusionment · masculinity · American Dream
novelist
Writer of prose narratives
- writerCreator of texts
- short storiesBrief prose narratives
- New YorkerResident of a major metropolis
essayist · critic · poet · chronicler · man of letters · reviewer · literary voice · wordsmith · storyteller · memoirist
Pulitzer Prize
Elite American letters award
- National Book AwardU.S. literary honor
- fictionImagined narrative work
- suburbanOf residential outskirts
adultery · Protestant · mortality · middle-class · domesticity · sexuality · marriage · infidelity · angst · existential
lyrical prose
Prose with musical quality
- descriptivePortraying with specific details
- sensuousPleasing to the body
- preciseExactly correct, no error
observational · elegant · vivid imagery · introspective · psychological depth · ironic · witty · detailed · naturalistic · evocative
middle class
Intermediate socioeconomic group
- marriageFormal union between partners
- infidelityDisloyalty to a partner
- religionSystem of spiritual belief
faith · doubt · mortality · aging · sexuality · consumerism · disillusionment · masculinity · American Dream · domesticity
UpdikeCormac McCarthy
Charles Bukowski · Ernest Hemingway · Thomas Pynchon · Toni Morrison · Samuel Beckett
UpdikeJames Baldwin
Toni Morrison · Gloria Steinem · Angela Davis · Alice Walker · feminist literature