His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series (the novels Rabbit, Run Rabbit Redux Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit at Rest and the novella Rabbit Remembered), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in 1954. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), 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. John Hoyer Updike (Ma– January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. From the BBC program Front Row, October 31, 2008.
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