“Every crease is a story.”

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1932–2009
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in *The New Yorker* starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for *The New York Review of Books.* His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series, which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death.
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Rabbit, Run
John Updike, 1960

The Witches of Eastwick
John Updike, 1984

Couples
John Updike, 1968

Fifty Best American Short Stories
Martha Foley, Elsie Singmaster & others, 1965

Great Short Stories of the World
Isak Dinesen, Sholem Aleichem & others, 1972
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer & others, 1952

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Kate Kinsella, Abigail Adams Smith & others, 1999

Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
Sumner Braunstein, Chinua Achebe & others, 1989

Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
Sumner Braunstein, Isabel Allende & others, 1994

Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
Sumner Braunstein, Rudolfo A. Anaya & others, 1991

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
Kate Kinsella, Kevin Feldman & others, 2002

A Child's Calendar
John Updike, 1989

Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Nance Davidson, Edward Abbey & others, 1989

Rabbit Redux
John Updike, 1961

The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
James Edwin Miller, Robert Hayden & others, 1973

Rabbit at Rest
John Updike, 1990

Best Short Stories -- Advanced Level
Raymond Harris, Katherine Mansfield & others, 1980

The Centaur
John Updike, 1962
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Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
Reader's Digest Association, F. Scott Fitzgerald & others, 1977

Gertrude and Claudius
John Updike, 2000

Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike, 1981

Terrorist
John Updike, 2006

The best American short stories of the century
John Updike & Katrina Kenison, 1999

The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
James Edwin Miller, Robert Hayden & others, 1973

Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960
Frank O'Connor, Vladimir Nabokov & others, 1960

Fiction
R. S. Gwynn, Nathaniel Hawthorne & others, 1993

Self-consciousness
John Updike, 1989

Burn This Book
Toni Morrison, John Updike & others, 2009

Licks of Love
John Updike, 2000

The Situation of the Story
Diana Young, Flannery O'Connor & others, 1993

Of The Farm
John Updike, 1965

Pigeon feathers
John Updike, 1962

The coup
John Updike, 1978

The Twelve Terrors of Christmas
John Updike, 2006

The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Second Edition
Jon C. Stott, Raymond E. Jones & others, 1998

Marry Me
John Updike, 1971

Golf Dreams
John Updike, 1996

The Music School
John Updike, 1966

Deadly Sins
A. S. Byatt, Thomas Pynchon & others, 1993

The Same Door
John Updike, 1959

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Reader's Companion--Silver
Prentice-Hall, inc. & others, 2002

The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
Cochrane, James. & others, 1971

Brazil
John Updike, 1994

Pearson Literature--California--Reading and Language
Grant P. Wiggins, Diane Ackerman & others, 2010

Surviving
Henry Green, John Updike & others, 1992

In the Beauty of the Lilies
John Updike, 1996

Trust Me
John Updike, 1987

Rabbit Angstrom
John Updike, 1995
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