Updike (75 page)

Horace, 93, 94

Horizon,
150

Hospice of the North Shore, Danvers, 479

Houghton Mifflin, 17, 78n

Howard, Jane, 284, 286

Howard, Maureen, 254

Howells, William Dean, 435–36

Hoyer, John Franklin (grandfather), 17, 21

death of, 90, 176, 214, 215, 216, 217, 350

in John’s writing, 12, 24, 25, 39, 163, 176–77, 204, 214, 429

in Linda’s writing, 216

and move back to Plowville, 33, 35

Hoyer, Katherine “Katie” (grandmother), 17, 23, 24

death of, 214, 215, 350

in John’s writing, 6, 25, 39, 176, 204, 214–15

Hughes, Langston, 174

Humphrey, Hubert H., 302

India, Updike travels to, 317

Internet, emergence of, 471–73

Ipswich, Massachusetts, 36

adultery in, 159, 208, 209–11, 245–50, 286, 287, 294, 304, 414

Castle Hill, 225

and change, 159–60

civic activities in, 181, 275, 286, 325, 375

Crane Beach, 159, 181

the dump in, 232

as Eastwick, 411, 414, 469

First Congregational Church, 223, 290, 424

the gang in, 48, 180–86, 210–11, 212, 224–25, 228, 244, 245–49, 286, 289, 290–91, 293, 325, 329, 356, 385–86, 387, 390, 406, 409

golf in, 190, 191–97, 325, 385

“the hillies” in, 321–23, 324

and JFK assassination, 256–57, 287

Labor-in-Vain Road, 320–21, 324–27, 357, 370, 372, 373, 385

Little Violet (house) in, 160–61, 166, 172, 179, 181, 190, 228

poker games in, 190–91, 385

Polly Dole House in, 172, 190, 281–82, 319–20, 324, 355, 359

routine in, 166–67, 168, 186

Seventeenth-Century Day, 293

as Tarbox, 184, 185, 246, 257, 288, 292–93, 321

Updike children in, 320–21, 325, 328–30

Updikes’ move to, 123, 151, 158–60, 179

Updike’s office in, 209

in Updike’s writing, 163, 182, 186, 245–49, 286, 287, 289, 293, 301, 304, 321–23, 325–30, 411n, 428

and Vietnam War, 277

Ipswich Chronicle,
225, 293

Ipswich Fair Housing Committee, 275

Ipswich Historical Commission, 181

Iron Curtain, Updike’s tour behind, 251, 257, 259, 262–65, 314, 344

Irving, John, 463

James, Henry, xiii, 134, 189, 343

Jill (fict.), 333–37, 339, 341, 399

Johnson, Diane, 412, 413

Johnson, Lyndon B., 269, 277, 278, 301

Johnson, Samuel, 77

Jones, Judith, 253n, 292, 309, 332, 340n, 346, 379, 380, 402, 408, 484

Jong, Erica,
Fear of Flying,
374

Joyce, James, 178, 209, 212, 266, 301, 364, 435

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
42

Ulysses,
36, 42, 128

Joyce, Stephen, 69

Judd, Peter, 92, 116

“J.W.L.” (pseud.), 362

Kafka, Franz, 178, 314, 364

Kahn, E. J., Jr., 147

Kakutani, Michiko, 377, 435, 458–59

Karnovsky, Ann, (née, Rosenblum), 83–84, 160

Kawabata, Yasunari, 174

Kazin, Alfred, 155–56, 254, 374

Kempton, Kenneth, 77

Kennedy, Edward, 333

Kennedy, Jacqueline, 287, 288, 291

Kennedy, John F., 184, 210, 255, 256–57, 287, 288, 289–90

Kennedy, X. J., 448

Kent State shootings, 323n

Kern, David (fict.), 39–40, 61, 212, 214, 218, 219–21, 223, 224, 246–49, 262, 348

Kerouac, Jack, 281

On the Road,
139

Khan, Prince Sadruddin Aga, 69–70

Khrushchev, Nikita, 255

Kierkegaard, Søren, 133n, 197, 223, 307, 424

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 273, 274

Klee, Paul, 134n

Knopf, Alfred A., 2, 173–75, 202, 230, 259, 260, 292

Knopf, Blanche, 173, 175

Knox Fellowship, 91, 105, 297

Korean War, 89

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 291

Krementz, Jill, 387

Kush (fict. nation), 309–11, 381

Laine, Frankie, 47

Larkin, Philip, 448

Lasch, Christopher “Kit”:

Bowdoin Prize to, 84, 91

competition with, 84–85, 93, 130

The Culture of Narcissism,
58, 397

death of, 93

dinner at the White House, 397

at Harvard, 58–61, 84–85, 89

letters from, 58–59, 61n, 78, 79, 93

Updike described by, 58–59, 78, 79, 85

visiting Updikes at home, 80, 130

Lawrence, D. H., 174

Lady Chatterley’s Lover,
202

Lawrence, Elizabeth, 161–63, 169–71, 174, 175, 187

Leacock, Stephen, 36

Le Carré, John,
A Perfect Spy,
444

Le Corbusier, 418

Leeds, Herbert Corey, 194

Leggett, Jack, 278

Lessing, Doris, 275

Levin, Harry, 76, 269

Lévi-Strauss, Claude,
Tristes Tropiques,
316

Lewis, Anthony, 302, 306

Lewis, C. S., 108

Lewis, Sinclair, 82

The Liberal Context,
80n

Liebling, A. J., 121, 147

Life,
71, 122, 138, 140, 167n, 226, 264, 281, 284–85, 286

literary scene:

author’s breakthrough in, 187–88

autobiography and fiction conflated in, 14–15

competition in, 267–69, 270, 363, 374, 384–85, 391, 461–65

concomitant activities of, 379–80, 409–10, 441

debate on aim of literature, 464–65, 473

digital future for, 471–75

great novels in historical context, 255

imagery and metaphor in, 76–77

lawsuits for libel or invasion of privacy, 292, 360, 366, 387, 401–2

in New York City, 386, 416

nouveau roman, 175

obscenity laws, 201–3

ownership of publishing houses, 418

publishing industry in decline, 471

reading as escape, 36

Little Shilling,
27

Locke, Richard, 340–41

Lockerbie bombing, 466–67

Los Angeles Times,
294

Lost Generation, 230

Lowell, Robert, 86

Lucci, Susan, 441

Luers, William, 263, 313–14

Lurie, Alison, 469

MacKenzie, Rachel, 215

Mackintosh, Cameron, 413

MacLeish, Archibald, 68, 78, 88–89, 269

Mailer, Norman, xi, 103, 123, 272, 275, 281, 324, 361n, 380, 441, 459, 463

The Naked and the Dead,
203

Malamud, Bernard, 269, 281

Mann, Thomas, 174, 364

Maple, Richard and Joan (fict.), 325–31, 332, 346, 372, 382, 390, 407, 409

in “Giving Blood,” 237–38, 328

in “Grandparenting,” 414–15

in “Here Come the Maples,” 373, 390n

in
The Maples Stories,
212n, 469

in “Marching Through Boston,” 274

in “Plumbing,” 325–28

in “Separating,” 351–55

in “Snowing in Greenwich Village,” 131–33, 165, 237, 330

in “Sublimating,” 344, 345

in “Twin Beds in Rome,” 237, 238–39

in “Your Lover Just Called,” 285–86

Maritain, Jacques, 108

Marsh, Ngaio, 36

Marshall, Alexandra, 476

Marshfield, Rev. Tom (fict.), 368–70, 379, 459

Martha’s Vineyard:

news items in, 333

Updike family on, 282–84, 295, 357

in Updike’s writing, 298, 302

Marx, Karl, 357

Massachusetts, abortion illegal in, 288

Mathias, Richard and Sally (fict.), 252–55

Matisse, Henri, 417

Matisse, Paul, 69

Maxwell, William, 143–46

and David’s writing, 384

death of, 441n

and Linda’s writing, 215, 217, 433

and National Institute of Arts and Letters, 269

rejections from, 90

retirement of, 144, 380–81

and Shawn, 142

and Updike’s career, 97, 102, 109, 117, 141, 162, 171, 462

as Updike’s editor, 111, 137, 144, 146, 153–55, 172, 218, 232, 246, 293, 301, 302

Updike’s friendship with, 143, 144–45, 166, 169, 174, 181, 227, 263, 296, 309, 374, 375

Updike’s interview with, 101–2, 132

Updike’s work accepted by, 97, 120, 172

McAfee, Annalena, 475

McCarthy, Joseph, 88, 89

McCarthy, Mary, 111, 250

McEwan, Ian, 377, 475–78

Atonement,
475

McKelway, St. Clair, 147

McKim, Mead and White, 101, 269

McNulty, Faith, 147

Mediterranean cruise, 316

Melville, Herman, 323

Mencken, H. L., 174

Meredith, James, 255

Midas’s Law, 367

Miller, Henry,
Tropic of Cancer,
202

Milton, John, 77, 91, 94

Paradise Lost,
337

Minnesota State University Moorhead, 431

Miró, Joan, 480

Mishima, Yukio, 174

Mitchell, Joseph, 121, 141

Monet, Claude, 417

Moore, Lorrie, 470, 484

Moore, Marianne, 139, 269

Moravia, Alberto, 253

Morrison, Theodore, 77, 78

Morrison, Toni,
Beloved,
444

Moss, Howard, 140, 232, 233, 300, 312, 382

MTV, 394n

Murphy, Gerald and Sara, 230

MV
Britannic,
117

Myopia Hunt Club, 313, 425, 476

Nabokov, Vladimir, 362–65, 374

Ada,
363, 369

death of, 381

The Defense,
363

influence of, 296, 310, 362–63, 365

Lolita,
202, 364, 369

and Martha, 355, 365

and
New Yorker,
111, 155, 271, 362

Pale Fire,
250, 310, 362

Pnin stories, 114n, 362

Transparent Things,
364

Updike’s reviews of his work, 363, 369

Nash, Ogden, 269

Nast, Condé, 445

National Book Award, 42, 250, 251, 265–66, 278

National Book Critics Circle Award, 400, 402, 434

National Book Foundation Medal, 461–62

National Geographic,
167n

National Institute of Arts and Letters (later American Academy of Arts and Letters), 209, 251, 266, 269–70, 280, 374, 386

National Motor Boat Show, 125–26

Neal, Steve, 16n

Neuhauser, Charles, 84, 85–86

Neusner, Jacob, 419

The New Criterion,
448

New Criticism, 76

Newhouse, S. I., Jr., 444, 445

The New Leader,
167

The New Republic,
18, 30, 167n, 270, 416–17

New York City:

Bryant Park, 121n

decline of, 418

literary scene in, 386, 416

MoMA, 417, 480

Updike as outsider in, 122–23, 126–27, 148, 151

Updikes’ departure from, 146, 147, 148, 151–52, 157, 168

Updikes’ residence in, 118, 119, 136, 146

in Updike’s writing, 126, 127, 163

“visit” pieces in, 125

The New Yorker
:

ads in, 121, 122, 282

avant-garde stories in, 344n

cartoons in, 121

casuals in, 138–39, 141, 149

circulation of, 120, 122

“Comment” pieces, 257, 276

competition of, 122

content of, 121–22

contracts with, 109–10

critical reviews in, 270–73, 279–80, 360–64, 384, 400–401, 454, 461, 480n

David’s work published in, 384–85

editorial power of, 141

evolution of, 138, 444–46

fact-checking department of, 362

influence of, 157

Lampoon
modeled on, 65

libel lawyer of, 292

Linda’s work published in, 17, 215–16, 384, 385

at midcentury, 120–22

offices of, 141

origins of, 111, 130n

Our Far-Flung Correspondents, 143

pay scale of, 110, 124n

readers of, 121, 122, 136, 137, 155, 186, 212, 245, 275, 345, 408

rejections from, 77, 90, 96, 97, 109, 110, 145, 300, 301, 303

reputation of, 111, 120–21, 122, 130n, 138

reviews of its authors’ work in, 177–78, 250, 271, 400–401

“shadow-bank” (unpublished work) in, 233, 236, 250, 263, 366

size of, 138n

style of, 124, 146, 153–57, 180, 464

The Talk of the Town, 119–26, 128, 130, 132, 141, 149, 150, 465–66

Updike’s income from, 73, 109, 110n, 117, 124, 138, 158, 180, 226, 282, 417, 471

Updike’s love of, 30–31, 97, 101, 102, 111, 122, 138, 141, 180

Updike’s relationship with, 102, 103, 109–14, 117–18, 137

Updike’s work published in, 4, 6, 7, 55, 73, 77, 96, 97–98, 100, 106–7, 109, 114, 120, 125, 128, 139, 143, 154, 162, 186, 209, 284, 317, 350, 380, 446

Updike’s work submitted to, 37, 100

“visit” pieces in, 125

“we” used in, 124

New York Herald Tribune,
265–66, 271–72

New York Public Library, 484

The New York Review of Books,
280, 340, 417, 421, 469

The New York Times,
152, 250, 270, 276, 294, 408, 412, 435, 437

The New York Times Book Review,
251, 271, 291, 340, 400

Ngo Dinh Diem, 290

Nicholson, Jack, 412, 413

Nixon, Richard M., 89, 302, 310, 332

Nobel Prize, 461, 462, 472

Nordholm, John (fict.), 98, 113, 186–90

Oates, Joyce Carol, 280–81, 361n, 383, 470, 472

and Haven Hill, 404, 406, 407

and National Institute/Academy, 374, 386–87

Updike’s correspondence with, 280, 291, 315, 374–75, 431, 446n, 463, 475, 485

Updike’s friendship with, 280, 373–75

Updike’s work reviewed by, 310, 454

Obama, Barack, 480

O’Brien, Tim, 194

O’Connor, Flannery, 103

O’Hara, John, 103, 111, 269–70, 281

Appointment in Samarra,
269

BUtterfield 8,
270

Pal Joey,
270

O. Henry Prize, 433

Olinger (fict. town):

move to Firetown from, 40, 41, 45, 48, 261

nostalgia for, 99–100, 113, 163, 187

in Updike’s writing, 14, 42, 45–46, 48, 49, 51, 98, 99, 113, 145, 163, 172, 173, 185, 186, 188, 190, 249