NEW YORK — John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures...
New Yorker | Roger Angell | Posted 05.25.2011
Colleagues for more than half a century, writer-editor partners for more than half that time, John Updike and I were close at a fixed distance--he at ...
Erica Jong | Posted 05.25.2011
John Updike was one of the few writers of our age who didn't see writing as an aggressive act that needed to be met with another aggressive act: criticism.
Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011
Updike had a good priest's devotion to his writing vocation. And for all the sex, laughter and inspired mischief we gratefully associate with him, he had also an air almost of sanctity.
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 05.25.2011
I think I was simply seduced by his writing. I felt I knew him, and in an odd way, that he knew me.
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011