Authors: Adam Begley
Ontario Review,
280, 375
oral contraception, 210
Orwell, George, xii, 175
Oxford, England:
Ashmolean Museum in, 104, 105–6
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, 91, 101, 104–5, 114, 297
socializing in, 116
Updike residence in, 104–9, 126, 298
in Updike’s writing, 114, 138, 139
Whites’ visit to, 113, 117
Ozick, Cynthia, 470
Packer, ZZ, 484
The Paris Review,
9, 15n, 49, 154, 250, 293
Pascal, Blaise,
Pensées,
218
Penguin Classics, 115
PEN International Congress, 19n, 307–8
Penner, Jonathan, 227, 228
Pennington, Elizabeth Entwistle Daniels, 83, 107, 147
Pennington, Leslie Talbot, 83, 89, 97
and religion, 107–8
in Updike’s writing, 107, 114, 214
Pennington, Mary, 79, 80–84
jobs held by, 83, 84
marriage to John,
see
Updike, Mary Pennington
Percy, Walker, 430n
Perelman, S. J., 36
Pfeiffer, Michelle, 412
Phi Beta Kappa, 76, 85
Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine,
1
Pickford, Mary, 453
Pinter, Harold, 275
Playboy,
303
Plowville, Pennsylvania:
family burial plot in, 301, 484
as Firetown, 40
Haven Hill contrasted to, 403n, 405
in Linda’s work, 18
move from Shillington to, 21, 31, 32–36, 38, 101, 261, 320, 327, 432–33
price of farm in, 261n
Robeson Lutheran Evangelical Church, 39
rural isolation of, 1, 3
Updike’s adolescence in, 223–24
in Updike’s writing, 10, 117, 186, 388, 427
Podhoretz, Norman, 272
Poe, Edgar Allan, 388
Poetry,
448
Ponce de Léon, Juan, 18–19
Pope, Alexander, 87
Popular Mechanics,
440
Pound, Ezra, 87
Cantos,
169
Prescott, Orville, 250
Price, Garrett, 30
Pritchard, William, 484
Pritchett, V. S., 400–401
Prometheus, 42
Proust, Marcel, 115–16, 128, 136, 150, 151, 178, 209, 266, 364
Pulitzer Prize, 339, 400, 434, 437
Punch,
65, 110
Pynchon, Thomas, 103, 281, 344n
V,
265
Queen, Ellery, 36
Quinn, Sally, 377–78, 382
Raban, Jonathan, 435
Rabinowitz, Dorothy, 272
Ramsey, Ian T., “Miracles: An Exercise in Logical Map-Work,” 108
Rea Award for the Short Story, 470
Reading, Pennsylvania, 1, 29, 159
public library, 36, 87
in Updike’s writing, 186
Reading Eagle,
29, 50, 56, 64, 83, 191n
Reagan, Ronald, 414, 419
Réalités,
416
Reflections,
37
Remnick, David, 138, 446, 484
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, 417, 459
Richardson, Stewart “Sandy,” 173, 174, 175, 180, 292
Ricks, Christopher, “Flopsy Bunny,” 340
RMS
Caronia,
104
Robinson, Joey (fict.), 260, 261, 432–33
Rollins, Hyder, 76
Romanticism, 103
Rosenblum, Ann.
See
Karnovsky, Ann (née Rosenblum)
Rosenthal, Jerome B., 401
Rosenthal Award, 209, 280
Rosenthal v. The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.,
401–2
Ross, Harold, 111, 112, 141, 154
Ross, Lillian, 141–42
Rossett, Barney, 202
Roth, Philip, xi, 103, 277–80, 281, 336, 374, 380, 387–88, 459, 465
Goodbye, Columbus,
278
Operation Shylock,
279–80
Portnoy’s Complaint,
278–79
in social settings, 277–78, 336, 387–88
and Updike’s review of Bloom’s memoir, 279–80
Saint Louis Literary Award, 430n
St. Thomas, Updike’s trip to, 380
Sale, Roger, 400
Salinger, J. D., 281
Franny and Zooey,
270–71
influence of, 99, 157, 213
“Just Before the War with the Eskimos,” 77, 99
and
New Yorker,
17n, 77, 153, 155
Updike’s reviews of his work, 270–71, 370
Sand, George, 470
Sandberg, Carl, 87
Saramago, José,
Baltasar and Blimunda,
461
Sarandon, Susan, 412
Saroyan, William, 103
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 174
The Saturday Evening Post,
37, 102, 122
Saturday Review,
153, 167n
Sayre, Joel, 116
Sayre, Nora, 116
Scientific American,
419
Scott, Sir Walter,
The Bride of Lammermoor,
36
Sennett, Mack, 452–53
September 11 attacks, 465–67, 468
Shakespeare, William, 448
Shaw, George Bernard, 77
Shaw, Irwin, 154
Shawn, William, 135, 464
death of, 142, 444
and
New Yorker
evolution, 138, 362, 444, 445, 446
and
New Yorker
traditions, 138n, 146
pushed aside, 138, 444
and Updike’s career, 102, 109, 117, 118, 124, 141–43, 151, 444
Updike’s memoir of, 118, 142
and White’s obituary, 111
Sheed, Wilfred, 291
Shepard, Alan, 196
Sherrill, Goldthwaite, 199
Sherwood, Robert, 64
Shilling, Clint, 28
Shillington, Pennsylvania:
and change of, 23–24, 29, 31, 101, 159, 322
churchgoing in, 38–39
escape from, 50, 55–56, 101, 127, 152, 405, 457, 471
Grace Lutheran Church, 39
high school in, 23, 33, 41, 47–48, 49, 52, 54, 65, 80, 199, 225, 336, 391
interviewers’ visits to, 1–2, 16
move to Plowville from, 21, 31, 32–36, 38, 101, 261, 320, 327, 432–33
as Olinger, 2, 40, 41, 48, 99, 101, 145, 163, 172, 185
Stephen’s Luncheonette, 47, 49, 55
Updike’s early years in, 29–30, 46, 244, 336, 486
Updike’s nostalgia for, 7, 31, 56, 78n, 99–100, 113–14, 145, 159, 163, 186, 190, 327, 336, 373, 388, 403n, 427, 428, 432, 482, 486
in Updike’s writing, 5–6, 7–8, 10, 27, 29, 48, 56, 78n, 99–100, 113–14, 145, 158, 173, 176, 185, 186, 190, 322, 388, 427, 428, 453
Sinclair, Upton, 103
Sitwell, Osbert, 193
Skeeter (fict.), 333–35, 337–41
Sky & Telescope,
419
Smiley, Jane, x
Smith, Raymond, 280, 373
Smithsonian Institution, 317
Sondheim, Stephen, 387
Spain, Updike travels to, 312, 317
Spark, Muriel, 271
Spenser, Edmund, 77
The Faerie Queene,
87
Spock, Benjamin, 136, 253
Sport,
440
SS
Leonardo da Vinci,
229–30
SS
Rotterdam,
297
Stafford, Jean, 111
Steinbeck, John, 263
Steinberg, Saul, 387, 416, 441
Steiner, George, 306, 362, 363
Stendhal, 358
Steuben Glass, 282
Stevens, Wallace, 87, 174
Stevenson, Adlai E., 89, 196
Stewart, Payne, 195
Stravinsky, Igor, 71
Streeter, Edward, 72
Styron, William, 103
The Confessions of Nat Turner,
338–39
Summer, Donna, 394
Summer of Love, 255, 321
Swift, Jonathan, 87
Taper, Bernard, 277–78
Tarbox (fict. town):
founding of, 322
and JFK assassination, 257
in Updike’s writing, 184, 185, 246, 247, 249, 257, 287n, 288–93, 303, 321–23, 343
Targ Editions, 380
Tertullian, 419
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 435
Thomas, Dylan, 87
Thompson, Lovell, 183, 203
Thurber, James, 30, 36, 116–17, 140, 146, 416
Ticknor and Fields, 17
Time
:
articles about Updike in, 20, 184–85
critical reviews in, 155–56, 250–51
Updike interviews in, 92, 152, 207, 214, 289
Updike on cover of, 1, 292–93
Tolstoy, Leo, 77
Tootsie Roll company, 227
The Transatlantic Review,
45, 301
Trilling, Diana, 294, 333–34
Trilling, Lionel, xii
Tristan and Iseult, 239–43, 258, 316, 367
Trollope, Anthony, 470
Truman, Harry S., 139
Tucci, Niccolò, 147
Tucson, Arizona, Updike house in, 474
Turgenev, Ivan, 153
Turner, Nat, 339
Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de, 133
University of Michigan, 476
Updike, David (son):
birth and infancy of, 134n, 146–47, 161
childhood of, 231, 284, 299, 331
and his father’s illness and death, 483, 484
and his father’s will, 416
in his father’s writing, 329, 347–48, 349–50, 367, 376, 427
in interviews, 9, 354n, 410
in Ipswich, 321
marriage and family of, 415n, 438, 439
at prep school, 359
at wedding of John and Martha, 382
as writer, 376, 384–85, 391
Updike, Elizabeth Pennington “Liz” (daughter):
at Bennington College, 359, 391
birth and infancy of, 107, 113, 119, 297
childhood of, 147, 231, 284
children of, 414, 415n, 423
and her father’s birthday, 441
and her father’s illness and death, 483, 484
and her father’s will, 416
in her father’s writing, 329, 346–47, 352, 367, 376
in Ipswich, 320–21, 325
marriage of, 376
as teenager, 299, 320–21, 325
travels with, 307–8
and wedding of John and Martha, 382
Updike, Hartley (grandfather), 42–43
Updike, John Hoyer:
“abstract-personal” work of, 234–37, 246–47, 254–55
and adultery, 159, 197, 207, 208–12, 218–20, 223, 224, 227–29, 230–31, 233–34, 236–37, 242, 245, 253, 254, 258–59, 262, 285–86, 287, 294, 303, 328, 344, 346, 354–55, 356, 366, 368, 369, 378, 389, 409, 442, 465
and aging, 429, 437–38, 446n, 452, 454–55, 456–57, 469, 474–75
ambition of, xii-xiii, 41, 46, 50, 55, 77, 82–83, 91, 101, 103, 126, 127, 138, 139, 141, 148, 149–50, 151, 209, 266, 287, 299, 391, 450, 471
amour-propre, 14–15, 31, 46, 56, 170, 172, 242, 245, 253, 257–59, 272, 273, 287, 300, 352, 354, 379, 389
art studies of, 91, 105–6, 114
author’s contacts with, xi, 53–54
awards and honors to, 42, 91, 92, 105, 145, 209, 250, 251, 265–66, 308, 400, 402, 416, 430, 433, 434–35, 437, 461–62, 470, 477–78
birth of, 3, 22
books by,
see
Updike, John Hoyer, books by
cartoons by, 67, 70, 77, 91
childhood of, 23–30, 50, 297
and cities, 40–41
compartmentalization by, 190, 228, 244, 294, 331, 353, 354, 355, 364, 422
as critic, 143, 225, 240–41, 243, 270–71, 279–80, 374, 384, 416–18, 461, 462–63, 475, 480
critical reviews of his work, 271–73, 294, 310, 316, 332, 333–34, 339–41, 360–64, 369–70, 400–401, 412, 413, 421–22, 434–35, 447, 452, 454, 456–57, 458–61, 468, 469, 470
death of, xi, 484–86
in England, 104–9, 113, 116–17, 298–302, 305–6
and escape, 48–51, 53, 54, 56, 157, 180, 194, 204, 222, 226, 251, 296, 322, 343, 347, 351, 357, 382, 384, 405, 428, 437, 453, 473
European exile of, 229–30, 235–37, 239, 250, 297, 357
and fatherhood, 151, 166, 172, 207, 223, 230–32, 246, 299, 321, 329–30, 331, 346–48, 349, 351, 372, 385, 389, 390–92, 398, 409, 423
and feminists, 255, 378–79, 412, 413, 418, 425–26, 459–60
final illness and death of, 479–86
focus on details, 112, 115, 168–69, 174
and grandchildren, 414–15, 423, 438–39, 481–82
and Harvard, 49–51, 53–94;
see also
Harvard
Lampoon
; Harvard University
health issues of, 56–57, 222–23, 238, 243, 360, 423, 428–29, 479–82
income of, 73, 109, 110n, 117, 124, 138, 158, 172, 180, 226, 251, 282, 294, 299, 312, 324, 417, 446, 470, 471, 476
interviews with, 1–8, 9, 15n, 49, 53–54, 73n, 92, 152, 154, 195, 203, 207, 214, 222, 227, 281, 284–85, 289, 293, 354, 376–79, 412, 422, 443, 462, 475, 476
living by himself, 357, 358–61, 368, 370, 384, 403, 442
and marriage, 84, 89–90, 165–66, 211–13, 241, 242–45, 251, 277, 285, 306–7, 344–45, 356–57
and Martha,
see
Bernhard, Martha Ruggles; Updike, Martha Bernhard
and Mary,
see
Pennington, Mary; Updike, Mary Pennington
and nostalgia, 3, 13–14, 176, 189–90, 219, 249, 255, 388–90, 431–32, 452, 460, 482;
see also
Shillington
and obscenity laws, 201–3
papers of, xiii, 471
parents of,
see
Updike, Linda Hoyer; Updike, Wesley Russell
personal traits of, 38, 48, 53, 66, 102, 103, 138, 185, 259, 285, 306, 374, 427–28
poems by,
see
Updike, John Hoyer, poems by
professional path of, 102–3, 209
as prolific writer, 119–20, 138, 141, 153, 179, 194, 281, 361, 401, 406–7, 449
psoriasis of, 26, 57, 90, 103, 118, 202, 358, 360, 423
and psychotherapy, 243–45, 248, 249, 368
public persona of, ix-xi, 102, 152, 172, 184–85, 259, 263–64, 266, 267, 269, 278, 286, 293–94, 295, 312, 374, 375, 377, 407–8
public speaking, 7, 19n, 188–89, 190, 376, 377, 380, 381, 386, 416, 435–36, 461–62, 473, 479
real life as source of fiction, 8–16, 21, 31–32, 41–42, 52, 98, 126, 129–30, 132–33, 134, 136, 137, 163, 179, 185, 190, 199, 211, 212–15, 219–25, 234, 247–48, 249–50, 270, 273, 342, 345–50, 351–55, 367–70, 471
and religion, 38–40, 103, 107–8, 114, 133, 179, 196–97, 217, 218, 220, 221, 223–24, 317, 327, 328, 418–20, 424, 482–83
reputation of, 1, 2, 53, 92, 154, 186, 294, 407, 427, 449, 458–60, 462
sensitivity to criticism (of others), 155–57
sex scenes in writing of, 200–201, 203, 212–13, 294, 340
sixtieth birthday of, 441–42