John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932.
He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in
Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From
1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His
novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the
National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award,
and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold
Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
John Updike died in January 2009.
Christopher Carduff, the editor of this volume, is a member
of the staff of The Library of America.
“For my money . . . the late John Updike was the best American
belletrist ever, and Higher Gossip . . . confirms everything I’ve
believed about his brilliance, his versatility, and his
depth.”—Larry McMurty, Harper’s
“As [Higher Gossip] reminds us, Updike was that rare creature: an
all-around man of letters, a literary decathlete who brought to his
criticism an insider’s understanding of craft and technique; a
first-class appreciator of talent, capable of describing other
artists’ work with nimble, pictorial brilliance; an ebullient
observer, who could bring to essays about dinosaurs or golf or even
the theory of relativity a contagious, boyish sense of
wonder.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“A timely reminder of the graceful companionship that Updike
offered to his readers—a presence that will be sorely missed.”—The
Christian Science Monitor
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