Updike preferred to avoid the media, but he agreed to this interview with Eleanor Wachtel in Toronto in 1996. At the time of the interview, he'd recently published a novel called In the Beauty of the ...

John Updike, who has died aged 76, was interviewed last October by the Daily Telegraph's Mick Brown. In it, the author explores the subject of celebrity, recalls his first meeting with Barack Obama, ...

In 1984, three books into his Rabbit tetralogy, John Updike spoke to Don Swaim of CBS radio about the development of Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, the singlemindedness that writing demands, and the need ...

I read John Updike’s “Rabbit at Rest” while in Japan, and quickly worked my way backwards to the rest of the “Rabbit” quartet, and eventually through all of Updike’s stories. There seemed to me not ...

We were all very scared at the prospect of John Updike coming on the G2 bus; it had been driven to Hay-on-Wye from London in the summer of 2004 and parked in the festival car park, where authors were ...

In the mid-1960s, when John Updike began giving selected papers to the Houghton Library at Harvard University, they were cataloged and, for the most part, made available to researchers. But after an ...

When John Updike died in 2009 at the age of 76, followers of American literature could not quite comprehend it. Novels, criticism and poetry (60 books) had flowed like a river from Updike’s pen since ...

Rourke is a former Times staff writer. John Updike, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in ...

American novelist John Updike died January 27 in Danvers, Massachusetts, at the age of 76. The cause of death was cancer. A major figure in American literature for the past half-century (his first ...