John Hoyer Updike
Male : Novelist, Poet and short story writer
Nationality : American
Place of Birth : Shillington, Pennsylvania
Date of Birth : 1932
Other Work : Worked for the New Yorker 1955-7
Education : Harvard & Ruskin Sch of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford
1958-1960
Seventy-five Aromatic Years of Leavitt & Peirce (In - The Recollection of 31 Harvard Men)
(1958 Leavitt & Peirce, Cambs, Mass)
The Carpentered Hen & Other Tame Creatures (1958 Harper) - 1st book in US
(in UK as "Hoping for a Hoopoe" 1959 Gollancz)
The Poorhouse Fair (1959 Knopf) (1959 Gollancz)
The Same Door (1959 Knopf) (1962 Deutsch) - ss
Rabbit Run (1960 Knopf) (1961 Deutsch)
[Filmed in 1970]
1961-1970
Pigeon Feathers & Other Stories (1962 Knopf) (1962 Deutsch) - ss
The Magic Flute (1962 Knopf) (1964 London) - children's book
The Centaur (1963 Knopf) (1963 Deutsch)
Telephone Poles & Other Poems (1963 Knopf) (1963 Deutsch)
The Ring (miscellany) (1964 Knopf) - Warren Chappell
Assorted prose (1965 Knopf) (1965 Deutsch)
Of the Farm (1965 Knopf) (1973 Deutsch)
The Music School (1966 Knopf) (1967 Deutsch) - ss
A Child's Calendar (1966 Knopf) - Nancy Ekholm Burkert
Couples (1968 Knopf) (1968 Deutsch)
Bath After Sailing (1968 County Squires, Monroe) - Signed Ltd Ed 125
The Angels (1968 King & Queen Press) - Ltd Ed 50
Bottom's Dream : Adapted from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights' Dream (1969 Knopf)
Midpoint and Other Poems (1969 Knopf) (1969 Deutsch)
Bech : A Book (1970 Knopf) - 500 signed (1970 Deutsch £1.50) - ss
1971-1975
Rabbit Redux (1971 Knopf) (1972 Deutsch)
Museums and Women & Other Stories (1972 Knopf) (1973 Deutsch) - ss
Seventy Poems (1972 Penguin)
Six Poems (1973 Aloe Editions)
Warm Wine : An Idyll (1973 Albodocani Press) - ss
A Good Place (1973 Aloe Editions NY) - Ltd Ed 100
Buchanan Dying (1974 Knopf) (1974 Deutsch) - play
Cunts : Upon Receiving the Swingers Life Club Membership Solicitation (1974 Frank Hallman NY)
Sunday in Boston (1975 Rook Broadsides) - Ltd Ed 300. Broadside
A Month of Sundays (1975 Knopf) - 450 signed (1975 Deutsch)
Picked-Up Pieces (1975 Knopf) - 250 signed (1976 Deutsch)
1976-1980
Marry Me (1976 Knopf) (1977 Deutsch £3.50)
Tossing and Turning (1977 Knopf) (1977 Deutsch £3.50)
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu (1977 Lord John Press)
From the Journal of a Leper (1978 Lord John Press)
The Coup (1978 Knopf) (1979 Deutsch)
Problems & Other Stories (1979 Knopf) - 350 signed (1980 Deutsch) - ss
To Far to Go : The Maples Stories (1979 Fawcett) - ss
16 Sonnets (1979 Ferguson)
An Oddly Lovely Day Alone (1979 Waves Press, Richmond, Virginia) - Broadside
Talk from the Fifties (1979 Lord John Press)
Three Illuminations in the Life of an American Author (1979 Targ Editions) - 350 signed
Ego and Art in Walt Whitman (1980 Targ editions)
1981-1985
Rabbit is Rich (1981 Knopf) (1982 Deutsch £7.95) - Pulitzer Prize
Hawthorne's Creed (1981 Targ, NY)
Bech is Back (1982 Knopf) (1983 Deutsch)
The Beloved (1983 Lord John Press) - Signed Ltd Ed
Hugging the Shore (1983 Knopf) (1984 Deutsch)
Confessions of a Wild Bore (1984 Tamazunchale Press)
Jester's Dozen (1984 Lord John Press)
The Witches of Eastwick (1984 Knopf) (1984 Deutsch)
[Filmed in 1987]
Facing Nature (1985 Knopf) (1986 Deutsch)
Emersonianism (1985 Ewert)
1986-1990
A Pear Like a Potato (1986 Santa Susanna Press US)
Roger's Version (1986 Knopf) (1986 Deutsch)
Getting Older (1986 Eurographica, Helsinki) - 350 signed & numbered
Trust Me (1987 Knopf) (1987 Deutsch) - ss
The Afterlife & Other Stories (1987 Sixth Chamber Press) - ss - 175 signed
Two Sonnets (1987 Wind River Press US)
More Stately Mansions (1987 Nouveau Press)
Getting the Words Out (1988 Lord John Press)
S : A Novel (1988 Knopf) (1988 Deutsch)
Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989 Knopf) (1989 Deutsch £12.95)
Just Looking : Essays on Art (1989 Knopf) - 350 signed (1989 Deutsch)
Brother Grasshopper (1990 Metacom Press)
Recent Poems 1986-1990 (1990 Eurographica, Helsinki) - 350 signed & numbered
Rabbit at Rest (1990 Knopf) (1991 Andre Deutsch £14.99) - PULITZER PRIZE
After 1991
Odd Jobs - Essays & criticism (1991 Knopf) (1992 Deutsch £20)
Memories of the Ford Administration (1993 Hamish Hamilton £15.99)
Brazil (1994 Knopf) (1994 Hamish Hamilton £14.99) - ss
The Afterlife & Other Stories (1994 Knopf) (1995 H Hamilton £14.99) - ss
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas (1994 Gotham Book Mart, NY) - 36pp pamphlet. Edward Gorey
In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996 Hamish Hamilton £16)
Toward the End of Time (1997 Knopf) (1998 Hamish Hamilton £16.99)
Bech at Bay : A Quasi-Novel (1999 Hamish Hamilton £16.99)
Gertrude and Claudius (2000 Knopf) (2000 Hamish Hamilton £16.99)
Licks of Love : Short Stories and a Sequel 'Rabbit Remembered' (2000 Knopf)
(2000 Hamish Hamilton £16.99)
Seek My Face (2003 Hamish Hamilton £16.99)
The Early Stories 1953-1975 (2004 Hamish Hamilton £25)
Villages (2005 Viking £16.99)