John Updike

(1932-2009)

Attended Harvard (A.B. 1954, Litt.D. 1992)

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

  The Harvard Gazette Retrospective January 28, 2009
  The Poetry Foundation Biography
  Random House: John Updike

HARVARD COLLECTIONS

General Overview
Hollis HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: John Updike
Hollis HOLLIS Catalog Subject Search: John Updike
Rare Materials
Oasis Finding Aid: John Updike Compositions
Oasis Finding Aid: John Updike Papers for Howells as Anti-Novelist (1987)
Oasis John Updike Papers for Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green, 1990-1991

ADDITIONAL LINKS

  New York Public Library Tribute
  The New Yorker Tribute 
Roger Angell reads John Updike’s short story “Playing with Dynamite,” and talks with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, about editing Updike.