John Updike
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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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