Born on this day – John Updike:

Writer

March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009

Credits:

Books:

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); A Halloween Treat (2012); A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects (1995); A Month of Sundays (1974); A&P (1961); Always Looking (2012); Americana (2001); Assorted Prose (1965); Baseball: a Literary Anthology (2002); Bech at Bay (1998); Bech Is Back (1982); Bech: A Book (1970); Brazil (1994); Buchanan Dying (1974); Classic Erotic Tales (2002); Collected Early Stories (2013); Collected Later Stories (2013); Collected Poems, 1953-1993 (1993); Couples (1968); Deadly Sins (1994); Due Considerations (2007); Endpoint and Other Poems (2009); Facing Nature (1985); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); FIRST WORDS: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors (2009); Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories (1995); Gertrude and Claudius (2000); Golf Dreams (1996); Great Baseball Stories (1990); Higher Gossip (2011); Hoping for a Hoopoe (2020); Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu (2010); Hugging the Shore (1983); In Love with a Wanton (2020); In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996); Just Looking (1989); Licks of Love (2000); Licks of Love (2000); Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 (1994); Listening for God, Vol. 2 (1996); Listening for God, Vol. 2 (1996); Listening for God, Vol. 3 (2000); Listening For God, Vol. 4 (2002); Magic Flute (1962); Marry Me (1971); Memories of the Ford Administration (1992); Midpoint and Other Poems (1969); More Matter (1999); More Stately Mansions (1987); Museums and Women and Other Stories (1972); My Father's Tears and Other Stories (2009); My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (2010); Odd Jobs (1991); Of the Farm (1965); Olinger Stories (1964); Our Mothers' Spirits: Great Writers on the Death of Mothers and the Grief of Men (1997); Picked-Up Pieces (1975); Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories (1961); Points of View (1956); Prize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards (1970); Problems and Other Stories (1979); Rabbit at Rest (1990); Rabbit Is Rich (1981); Rabbit Redux (1971); Rabbit, Run (1960); Reel Verse: Poems about the Movies (2019); Rich In Russia (2011); Roger's Version (1986); S. (1988); Seek My Face (2002); Selected Poems (2015); Self-Consciousness (1989); Seventy Poems (1972); Still Looking (2005); Telephone Poles and Other Poems (1963); Ten Modern American Short Stories (1965); Terrorist (2007); The Afterlife and Other Stories (1994); The Alligators (1989); The Beastly Baby (1995); The Best American Erotica 2006 (2006); The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (1999); The Best American Short Stories 1984 (1984); The Best American Short Stories 1991 (1991); The Best American Short Stories 2001 (2001); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The Blue Aspic (1968); The Carpentered Hen (1982); The Centaur (1963); The Coup (1978); The Dance of the Solids (1969); The Doubtful Guest (1957); The Early Stories (2003); The Eleventh Episode (1971); The Fatal Lozenge (1961); The Glorious Nosebleed (1974); The Literary Traveller (1994); The Lost Lions (1973); The Maples Stories (1980); The Music School (1966); The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007); The Object-Lesson (1958); The Osbick Bird (1970); The Other Statue (1968); The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992); The Poorhouse Fair (1958); The Remembered Visit (1965); The Same Door, Short Stories (1959); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); The Sinking Spell (1964); The Sopping Thursday (1971); The Twelve Terrors of Christmas (1994); The Twelve Terrors of Christmas (1994); The Utter Zoo (1967); The Widows of Eastwick (2008); The Witches of Eastwick (1984); The Women Who Got Away (2007); Thoughtful Alphabets (2012); Three Trips (2005); Too Far to Go (1979); Tossing and Turning (1977); Toward the End of Time (1997); Trust Me (1987); Valentine Generation And Other Stories (1981); Villages (2004); Wonderful Town (2000); Writers on Writing (2001); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Your Lover Just Called (1980).

Movies and television:

A & P (1996); American Playhouse (1988); Apostrophes (1986); Charlie Rose in Charlie Rose (2000); Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey (1991); Eastwick (2002–2010); Good Morning America (1992); Great Conversations (1999); Gyere hozzám feleségül (1987); James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times (2000); John Updike: In His Own Words (1997); LeseZeichen (1999); Práve volal tvuj milenec (1989); Rabbit, Run (1970); Rain Is Grace, Rain Is the Sky Descending to the Earth (2017); Release (1968); Review (1972); Saturday Review (1987); Ted Williams: There Goes the Greatest Hitter That Ever Lived (2009); The Book Programme (1976–1980); The Century: America's Time (1999); The David Frost Show (1969–1970); The Dick Cavett Show (1981); The Music School (1974); The Roommate / The Christian Roommates (1984); The Simpsons (2000); The Witches of Eastwick (1987); The Witches of Eastwick (1992); This Week (2006); Today (1986); Too Far to Go (1979); Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker (2001); Upon Reflection (1989).