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John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. He wrote more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. He died in January 2009.
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Winesburg, Ohio
Written by Sherwood Anderson
Introduction by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: March 2, 1999
Price: $8.95
Before Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Richard Ford, there was Sherwood Anderson, who, with Winesburg, Ohio, charted a new direction in American fiction--evoking with lyrical simplicity quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and women. In a bed, elevated so that he can peer out the window, an... Read more >
Written by Sherwood Anderson
Introduction by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: March 2, 1999
Price: $8.95
Before Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Richard Ford, there was Sherwood Anderson, who, with Winesburg, Ohio, charted a new direction in American fiction--evoking with lyrical simplicity quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and women. In a bed, elevated so that he can peer out the window, an... Read more >
Little Money Street
In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France
Written by Fernanda Eberstadt
Introduction by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $14.00
In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France—a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a society made, in part, of lawlessness and defiance of non-Gypsy norms... Read more >
In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France
Written by Fernanda Eberstadt
Introduction by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $14.00
In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France—a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a society made, in part, of lawlessness and defiance of non-Gypsy norms... Read more >
Little Money Street
In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France
Written by Fernanda Eberstadt
Introduction by John Updike
Format: eBook, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $14.00
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In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France
Written by Fernanda Eberstadt
Introduction by John Updike
Format: eBook, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $14.00
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The Blithedale Romance
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $9.00
The Blithedale Romance, considered one of Hawthorne's major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against an experiment in communal living. From mesmerism to illicit love, The Blithedale Romance represents one of Hawthorne's best and most sharply etched works, one that Henry James called his "brightest" and "liveliest" novel, and... Read more >
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $9.00
The Blithedale Romance, considered one of Hawthorne's major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against an experiment in communal living. From mesmerism to illicit love, The Blithedale Romance represents one of Hawthorne's best and most sharply etched works, one that Henry James called his "brightest" and "liveliest" novel, and... Read more >
Christmas at The New Yorker
Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
Edited by New Yorker
Foreword by John Updike
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: June 10, 2009
Price: $17.00
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Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
Edited by New Yorker
Foreword by John Updike
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: June 10, 2009
Price: $17.00
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Christmas at The New Yorker
Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
Edited by New Yorker
Foreword by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 18, 2005
Price: $17.00
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Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
Edited by New Yorker
Foreword by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 18, 2005
Price: $17.00
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Christmas at The New Yorker
Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
Written by New Yorker
Foreword by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $24.95
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Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
Written by New Yorker
Foreword by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $24.95
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The Afterlife and Other Stories
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 25, 1994
Price: $29.95
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Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 25, 1994
Price: $29.95
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The Afterlife and Other Stories
Unabridged Selections: The Man Who Became a Soprano, The Afterlife, The Other Side of the Street, Farrell's Caddie, Grandparenting
Written by John Updike
Read by John Updike
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $9.00
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Unabridged Selections: The Man Who Became a Soprano, The Afterlife, The Other Side of the Street, Farrell's Caddie, Grandparenting
Written by John Updike
Read by John Updike
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $9.00
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Afterlife
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
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Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
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Afterlife
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $14.95
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Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $14.95
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Americana
and Other Poems
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 15, 2001
Price: $23.00
John Updike's first collection of verse since his Collected Poems, 1953-1993 brings together fifty-eight poems, three of them of considerable length. The four sections take up, in order: America, its cities and airplanes; the poet's life, his childhood, birthdays, and ailments; foreign travel, to Europe and the tropics; and, beginning with... Read more >
and Other Poems
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 15, 2001
Price: $23.00
John Updike's first collection of verse since his Collected Poems, 1953-1993 brings together fifty-eight poems, three of them of considerable length. The four sections take up, in order: America, its cities and airplanes; the poet's life, his childhood, birthdays, and ailments; foreign travel, to Europe and the tropics; and, beginning with... Read more >
Bech at Bay
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $14.00
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Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $14.00
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Bech at Bay
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $14.00
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Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $14.00
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Bech is Back
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 25, 1998
Price: $12.00
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Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 25, 1998
Price: $12.00
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Bech: A Book
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 25, 1998
Price: $12.95
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Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 25, 1998
Price: $12.95
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Brazil
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $13.95
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Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $13.95
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Brazil
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 25, 1994
Price: $35.00
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Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 25, 1994
Price: $35.00
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Centaur
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 12, 1963
Price: $32.50
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Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 12, 1963
Price: $32.50
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Centaur
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
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Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
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Collected Poems
1953-1993
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: July 4, 1995
Price: $25.00
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1953-1993
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: July 4, 1995
Price: $25.00
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The Complete Henry Bech
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: March 27, 2001
Price: $23.00
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Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: March 27, 2001
Price: $23.00
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The Coup
Written by John Updike
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: March 12, 1980
Price: $7.99
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Written by John Updike
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: March 12, 1980
Price: $7.99
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The Coup
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 12, 1978
Price: $32.50
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Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 12, 1978
Price: $32.50
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Couples
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
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Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
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