Former small-town basketball star Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom struck a responsive chord with readers and critics alike and catapulted Updike into the literary stratosphere.
But it was his second novel, 1960's Rabbit, Run, that forged his reputation and introduced one of the most memorable characters in American fiction. A year later, he made his fiction debut with The Poorhouse Fair. In 1958, Updike's first collection of poetry was published. Since 1957, he has lived in two small towns in Massachusetts that have inspired the settings for several of his stories. Following a year of study in England, he joined the staff of The New Yorker, establishing a relationship with the magazine that continues to this day. With an uncommonly varied oeuvre that includes poetry, criticism, essays, short stories, and novels, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Updike has helped to change the face of late-20th-century American literature.īorn in Reading, Pennsylvania, Updike graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1954. National Book Award for Rabbit Is Rich, 1982 Pulitzer PrizeĪnd National Book Critics Circle Award for Rabbit at Rest, Pulitzer Prizer, National Book Critics Circle Award, and
Awards-National Book Award for The Centaur, 1964.
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, England Education-A.B., Harvard University also studied at the.But happiness is more elusive than a medal, and Harry must continue to run-from his wife, his life, and from himself, until he reaches the end of the road and has to turn back. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman. Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life.
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