Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of
one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer
Prize-winning author John Updike--a candid, intimate, and richly
detailed look at his life and work. In this magisterial biography,
Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the
acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw
himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America, who
dedicated himself to the task of transcribing "middleness with all
its grits, bumps and anonymities." Updike explores the stages of
the writer's pilgrim's progress: his beloved home turf of Berks
County, Pennsylvania; his escape to Harvard; his brief, busy
working life as the golden boy at The New Yorker; his family years
in suburban Ipswich, Massachusetts; his extensive travel abroad;
and his retreat to another Massachusetts town, Beverly Farms, where
he remained until his death in 2009. Drawing from in-depth research
as well as interviews with the writer's colleagues, friends, and
family, Begley explores how Updike's fiction was shaped by his
tumultuous personal life--including his enduring religious faith,
his two marriages, and his first-hand experience of the "adulterous
society" he was credited with exposing in the bestselling Couples.
With a sharp critical sensibility that lends depth and originality
to his analysis, Begley probes Updike's best-loved works--from
Pigeon Feathers to The Witches of Eastwick to the Rabbit
tetralogy--and reveals a surprising and deeply complex character
fraught with contradictions: a kind man with a vicious wit, a
gregarious charmer who was ruthlessly competitive, a private person
compelled to spill his secrets on the printed page. Updike offers
an admiring yet balanced look at this national treasure, a master
whose writing continues to resonate like no one else's.
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