Dec 18, 2009

John Updike | John Updike

Other Literary Forms

Since publishing his first story in The New Yorker in 1954, Updike has truly become a man of letters, publishing in virtually every literary genre—poetry, short fiction, novel, essay, drama, art criticism, and autobiography. His first short- story collection, The Same Door, appeared in 1959; many more followed, including The Afterlife and Other Stories in 1994. Updike’s play Buchanan Dying was published in 1974. His poetry has appeared in many volumes of his own, beginning with The Carpentered Hen, and Other Tame...

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