![]() ![]() His most famous works are the Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom series: Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990). Updike was the author of 21 novels as well as numerous collections of short stories, poems and criticism and is one of only three authors to win more than one Pulitzer Prize. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at The New Yorker. ![]() He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year at Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. John Updike (1932-2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. Because, as he knows only too well, 'after you've been first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate'. With no way to fix things, he resolves to flee from his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a thousand-mile journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. It's 1959, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one-time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. ![]()
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