MONOGRAPHS
Afterlife
and Other Stories,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Alligators, Mankato: Creative Education, 1990.
Americana and Other Poems, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
Angels, Pensacola: King & Queen Press, 1968.
Assorted
Prose, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
Bath after Sailing, Monroe: Pendulum Press, 1968.
Bech:
A Book, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.
Bech
at Bay: A Quasi-novel,
New York: Fawcett Books/Ballantine Publishing Group, 1998.
Bech
is Back, New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1998.
Beloved, Northridge: Lord John Press, 1982.
Brazil, New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1996.
Brother
Grasshopper,
Worcester: Metacom Press, 1990.
Buchanan
Dying: A Play,
Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2000.
Carpentered
Hen and Other Tame Creatures, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
Centaur, London: Deutsch, 1972.
Chaste
Planet, Worcester: Metacom Press, 1980.
Child’s
Calendar,
New York: Holiday House, 1965.
Collected
Poems, New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
Complete
Henry Bech: Twenty Stories,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
Confessions
of a Wild Bore,
Newton: Tamazunchale Press, 1984.
Coup, London: Deutsch, 1979.
Couples, London: Deutcsh, 1968.
Dance
of the Solids,
New York: Scientific American, 1969.
Due
Considerations: Essays and Criticism, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Early
Stories, 1953-1975,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Ego
and Art in Walt Whitman,
North Hills: Bird and Bull Press, 1980.
Facing
Nature: Poems,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
From
the Journal of a Leper,
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1978.
George
Nick: Spirit of Place
[with Katherine French & Arthur Dion], Framingham: Danforth
Museum of Art, 2007.
Gertrude
and Claudius, New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
Golf
Dreams: Writings on Golf,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Hawthorne’s
Creed, New
York: Targ Editions, 1981.
Heroes
and Anti-heroes,
New York: Random House, 1991.
Hoping
for a Hoopoe: Poems,
London: Gollancz, 1959.
Hugging
the Shore: Essays and Criticism,
Hopewell: Ecco Press, 1994.
In
the Beauty of the Lillies,
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1996.
Just
Looking: Essays on Art, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
Licks
of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
Marry
Me: A Romance,
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1996.
Memories
of the Ford Administration: A Novel, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Month
of Sundays,
London: Deutsch, 1975.
More
Matter, New York: Ballantine, 2000.
Museums
and Women, and Other Stories,
London: Deutsch, 1973.
Music School: Short Stories, London: Deutsch, 1967.
Odd
Jobs: Essays and Criticism,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
Of
the Farm, New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.
Olinger
Stories, a Selection,
New York: Vintage Books, 1964.
Picked-up
Pieces,
London: Deutsch, 1976.
Pigeon
Feathers, and Other Stories,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962.
Poorhouse
Fair, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
Problems
and Other Stories,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.
Rabbit
Angstrom: A Tetralogy,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
Rabbit
at Rest, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
Rabbit
is Rich, New York:
Fawcett Columbine, 1996.
Rabbit
Redux, London: Deutsch, 1972.
Rabbit
Run, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.
Ring, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
Roger’s
Version,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
S.:
A Novel, London: Deutsch, 1988.
Same
Door; Short Stories,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
Seek
My Face, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
Self-consciousness:
Memoirs,
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
Seventy
Poems, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
Terrorist, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Too
Far to Go: The Maples Stories,
New York: Fawcett Crest, 1979.
Tossing
and Turning: Poems,
London: Deutsch, 1977.
Toward
the End of Time,
Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1997.
Trust
Me: Short Stories,
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1996.
Villages, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Widows
of Eastwick, New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Witches
of Eastwick, New York:
Fawcett Columbine, 1996.
SELECT WORKS EDITED BY JOHN UPDIKE
Best
American Short Stories of the Century, ed. with Katrina Kenison, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2000.
Century
of Arts & Letters: The History of the National Institute of
Arts & Letters as Told Decade by Decade, by Eleven Members/Louis
Auchincloss … [et al.], New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Selected
Poems, by Karl Shapiro, New York: Library of
America, 2003.
SELECT INTRODUCTIONS BY JOHN UPDIKE
“Introduction”
in Art of Mickey Mouse, ed. by Craig Yoe and Janet Morra-Yoe,
New York: Hyperion, 1991.
“Introduction”
in Best American Short Stories of the Century, ed. with
Katrina Kenison, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2000.
“Introduction”
in Complete Shorter Fiction, by Herman Melville, New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
“Introduction”
in Seven Men, by Max Beerbohm, New York:
New York Review Books, 2000.
SELECT REVIEWS OF JOHN UPDIKE’S WORKS
Banville,
John, “Action Figure: In John Updike’s Novel, a Woman Much Like
Lee Krasner Talks about Her
Marriage
to a Man Much Like Jackson Pollock, in the New York Times Book
Review, November 17, 2002.
Caldwell,
Gail, “Bech to His Old Tricks John Updike Sends His Alter Ego
into Dubious Battle with Mortality,” in the Boston Globe, October
25, 1998.
Caldwell,
Gail, “Drawing from Life in Seek My Face, John Updike Uses Painter
Jackson Pollock as His Model with
Unmemorable
Results,” in the Boston Globe, November 17, 2002.
Caldwell,
Gail, “Hamlet, Run John Uupdike Explores What was Really Rotten
in the First Family of Denmark,” in the Boston Globe,
February 6, 2000.
Caldwell,
Gail, “Rabbit in Absentia John Updike Conjures the Ghost of His
Indelible Hero, Among a Collection of ‘Splendid Elsewheres’,”
in the Boston Globe, November 12, 2000.
Dachslager,
Earl L., “Rabbit Royal/Updike Returns to Sources in Brilliant
Prequel to ‘Hamlet’,” in the Houston Chronicle,
February 20, 2000.
Doody,
Terence, “John Updike Takes on Terror/Sensitive Death-haunted
Young Muslim at Center of Author’s Satisfying Thriller,” in the
Houston Chronicle, June 4, 2006.
Eberhart,
John M., “’Licks of Love’ Ties Up Some of Updike’s Loose Ends,
in the Chicago Tribune, November 27, 2000.
Freeman,
John, “A Muddled Canvas Pollock-like Characters Intrude as John
Updike Journeys into Post War Art,” in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
December 1, 2002.
Freeman,
John, “Updike’s View from Back on Top with His New Bestseller,
‘Terror,’ He Revisits the Question of Whether America Delivers
on Its Promise,” in the Denver Post, July 2, 2006.
Hoover,
Bob, “Rabbit Runs Again in New Updike Collection,” in the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, November 26, 2000.
Hulbert,
Dan, “Updike: We Know Him Well ‘Hamlet’ Prequel a Daring Exercise
from Playful Master,” in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
February 20, 2000.
Kisssel,
Howard, “A Danish Treat ‘Gertrude and Claudius,’ John Updike’s
New Spin on Hamlet, is a Triumph,” in the New York Daily
News, February 13, 2000.
Miller,
Quentin, “Updike Gets Medieval in ‘Gertrude and Claudius,’ a Master
of Suburban Angst Flaunts His Versatility, Reimaging Shakespeare’s
‘Hamlet’ from the Queen’s Point of View,” in the Star Tribune,
February 20, 2000.
Neumaier,
Joe, “X-raying Emotional Baggage: John Updike GoesInside the Mind
of a Would-be Suicide Bomber,” in the New York Daily
News, June 4, 2006.
Ozick,
Cynthia, “God is in the Details: The Young John Updike Pursues
the Joint Contemplation of the Divine Presence and Mysteries of
the Flesh,” in the New York Times Book Review, November
30, 2003.
Price,
Matthew, “Updike’s Homeland Insecurity Issues; TerroristJohn Updike,”
in the Los Angeles Times, June 5, 2006.
Schapiro,
Nancy, “Best American Short Stories of the Century Reflect Pessimism
in Perspective—and Impressive—Prose,” in the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, December 26, 1999.
Schulman,
“Playing at Terrorism, Updike Out of His Element in New Novel,”
in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 18, 2006.
Shindler,
Dorman T., “Updike Leaves Surburbia behind; Author Explores how
a Muslim Kid Turns into Terrorist,” in the Denver Post,
June 11, 2006.
Stone,
Robert, “Updike’s Other America,” in the New York Times
Book Review,
June 18, 2006.
Trachtenberg,
Jeffrey A., “Updike’s ‘Terrorist’ Survives Bad Reviews to Be Best
Seller,” in the Denver, Post, June 19, 2006.
Wolfe,
Peter, “’Licks of Love’ is a Meandering Walk through Updike Country,”
in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 19, 2000.
Wolfe,
Peter, “Updike’s Latest Borrows from Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ Setting,”
in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 20, 2000.
Wolfe,
Peter, “Updike Protagonist Snuggles in for the Winter of His Life,”
in the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, October, 24, 2004.
Zipp,
Yvonne, “Envisioning the Life of a American Suicide Bomber: John
Updike Tries to Imagine the Mind of a U.S.-grown Teenage Terrorist,”
in the Christian Science Monitor, June 13, 2006.
SELECT CRITICAL SOURCES ON JOHN UPDIKE
Chua-Eoan,
Howard, “An Elegant Execution: Updike Cries ‘Wolfe’ at an Awards
Dinner,” in Time, November 30, 1998.
Dalley,
Jan, “The Pursuit of Happiness Despite the Venom Spewed against
His Country, John Updike Keeps Faith with America,” in the Financial
Times, June 5, 2004.
De
Bellis, Jack, John Updike: The Critical Responses to the
“Rabbit” Saga (Critical Responses in Arts and Letters) New York:
Praeger Publishers, 2005.
De
Bellils, Jack, The John Updike Encyclopedia, Westport:
Greenwood Press, 2000.
Falsey,
Elizabeth A., Art of Adding and the Art of TakingAway:
Selections from John Updike’s Manuscripts: An Exhibition at the
Houghton Library, Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1987.
Gado,
Frank, ed,. Conversation with John Updike, Schenectady:
Union College 1971. Grenier, Donald J., John Updike’s Novels,
Athens: Ohio University Press, 1985.
Hamilton,
Alice, Elements of John Updike, Grand Rapids: William
B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1970.
Hoover, Bob, “Updike Decries Digital Text at BookExpo,”
in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 23, 2006.
Kakutani,
Michiko, “All of Me … Why Not Take All of Me? John Updike Wonders
as He Offers His Complete ‘Early Stories’,” in the San Diego
Union, December 7, 2003.
Kissel,
Howard, “Updike Upends the Upstarts: ‘Rabbit’ Author Runs on and
on,” in the New York Daily News, November 26, 2000.
Lanham,
Fritz, “Updike Balks at Playing the Digital Game/At BookExpo,
Novelist Excoriates ‘Wired’ Editor,” in the Houston
Chronicle, May 28, 2006.
Marcus,
James, “His Habit of Mind: Due Considerations Essays and Criticism:
John Updike,” in the Los Angeles Times, October
28, 2007.
Margolin,
Elaine, “Confessions and Critiques by John Updike Further Obscure
the Man Inside the Prose,” in the Denver Post, December
9, 2007.
Plath,
James, ed., Conversations with John Updike, Jackson: University
of Mississippi Press, 1994.
Ristoff,
Dilvo I., John Updike’s Rabbit at Rest: Appropriating History
(Modern American Literature, Vol. 18), New York: Peter Lang Publishing,
1998.
Silverman,
Jeff, “Rabbit, Golf: John Updike Talks about His dreams, His Clubs,
His Game and Tiger Woods,” in the Wall Street Journal,
September 23, 2006.
Streitfield,
David, “Updike at Bay: The American Novelist has More than a Few
Words Left in Him,” in the< Washington Post, December
16, 1998.
Weeks,
Linton, “The I’s Have It; At 72, John Updike Still Hasn’t Run
Out of Things to Write About . . . John Updike,” in the Washington
Post, May 5, 2004.
Wolfe,
Peter, “In Walks John Updike with a Dab Hand at Simile, Eloquently
Phrased Insights,” in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
November 23, 2003.
Wullschlager,
Jackie, “A Joy to Behold Updike’s Fresh Approach to American Painting
Combines the Beautiful Prose of a Novel with a Keen Eye for Artistic
Detail,” in the Financial Times, March 11, 2006.
—Complied
by Donna McClish, NEH Enayet Rahim Memorial Library
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