John updike biography information on pocahontas

John Updike, who died in 2009 at 76, was one of the best-known and most highly regarded American writers of the second half of the 20th century.

He started publishing his work in The New Yorker as soon as he graduated from Harvard in 1954 and produced dozens of novels and collections of short stories and hundreds of shorter pieces.

In Updike, Adam Begley gives the writer the biography he deserves - a dexterous combination of literary analysis and life events.

Begley's task is made trickier by the fact that so much of Updike's work drew directly on his experiences, whether the years growing up in rural Pennsylvania or those spent wife-swapping in suburban Boston.

But Begley moves neatly between the works of fiction that Updike is writing at any given point in his life and those that describe the time remembered.

Adulteries aside, Updike didn't live a particularly eventful life.

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