Updike preferred to avoid the media, but he agreed to this interview with Eleanor Wachtel in Toronto in 1996. At the time of the interview, he'd recently published a novel called In the Beauty of the ...

John Updike, who has died aged 76, was interviewed last October by the Daily Telegraph's Mick Brown. In it, the author explores the subject of celebrity, recalls his first meeting with Barack Obama, ...

The first time John Updike met the late Norman Mailer was in 1964, after a literary function in New York The first time John Updike met the late Norman Mailer was in 1964, after a literary function in ...

In 1984, three books into his Rabbit tetralogy, John Updike spoke to Don Swaim of CBS radio about the development of Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, the singlemindedness that writing demands, and the need ...

I read John Updike’s “Rabbit at Rest” while in Japan, and quickly worked my way backwards to the rest of the “Rabbit” quartet, and eventually through all of Updike’s stories. There seemed to me not ...

We were all very scared at the prospect of John Updike coming on the G2 bus; it had been driven to Hay-on-Wye from London in the summer of 2004 and parked in the festival car park, where authors were ...

John Updike, the kaleidoscopically gifted writer whose quartet of Rabbit Angstrom novels highlighted so vast and protean a body of fiction, verse, essays and criticism as to place him in the first ...