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But it was his second novel, 1960's Rabbit, Run, that forged his reputation and introduced one of the most memorable characters in American fiction.

A year later, he made his fiction debut with The Poorhouse Fair. In 1958, Updike's first collection of poetry was published. Since 1957, he has lived in two small towns in Massachusetts that have inspired the settings for several of his stories. Following a year of study in England, he joined the staff of The New Yorker, establishing a relationship with the magazine that continues to this day. With an uncommonly varied oeuvre that includes poetry, criticism, essays, short stories, and novels, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner John Updike has helped to change the face of late-20th-century American literature.īorn in Reading, Pennsylvania, Updike graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1954. National Book Award for Rabbit Is Rich, 1982 Pulitzer PrizeĪnd National Book Critics Circle Award for Rabbit at Rest, Pulitzer Prizer, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Awards-National Book Award for The Centaur, 1964.Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, England Education-A.B., Harvard University also studied at the.The 1987 film version starred Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jack Nicholson.

Divorced but hardly celibate, the wonderful witches one day found themselves quite under the spell of the new man in town, Darryl Van Horne, whose strobe-lit hot tub room became the scene of satanic pleasures. The local gossip columnist, Sukie Rougemont, could turn milk into cream. Alexandra Spoffard, a sculptress, could create thunderstorms. In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the seventies, there lived three witches. Summary | Author | Book Reviews | Discussion Questionsīefore they were the widows of Eastwick, our heroines were a trio of delightfully wicked witches.