A Tribute to John Updike - LIVE Shorts

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A Tribute to John Updike, LIVE from the NYPL Shorts, March 20, 2009.

Colleagues, friends, and family of John Updike, who died January 27, 2009, gathered at NYPL to pay tribute to a titan of American literature.

David Remnick, Sonny Mehta, Charles McGrath, Judith Jones, Roger Angell, Lorrie Moore, Adam Gopnik, Deborah Garrison, Ann Goldstein, ZZ Packer, and David Updike honor John Updike's life with remembrances and readings from his work.

Updike, the author of more than 60 books—including twenty-two novels, fifteen short-story collections, seven collections of poetry, and five childrens books—was the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Book Awards. He is probably best remembered for his quartet of novels featuring Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the first of which, Rabbit, Run, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1960, and the last, Rabbit at Rest, in 1990.

In his half-century writing for The New Yorker, he contributed fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism ; more than seventy of his book reviews and essays are collected in Due Considerations. Before he died, Updike delivered the manuscripts for three new books.

This event was co-presented by Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker.


Filming & Editing: The A/V Gang
Audio: One Dream Sound

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[Arringgarrosa]

bist du der papa von konstantin updike ?

[vogisko]

My dear. favourite author. Itś a shame, he´d never given the Nobel price. Thank you, John.