by Begley, Adam
466 “[I]t fell straight down like an elevator, with a tinkling shiver”: JU, “The Talk of the Town,” The New Yorker, September 24, 2001, 28.
466 “The next morning, I went back to the open vantage”: Ibid., 29.
467 “O.K., you are sitting in an airplane”: JU, Am.
467 “Within him his great secret felt an eggshell thickness from bursting forth”: MT, 94.
468 “Updike has produced one of the worst pieces of writing”: Christopher Hitchens, “No Way,” The Atlantic, June 2006, 117.
469 “It is to Updike’s great credit, and a proof of his long-standing and ardent interest in women”: Alison Lurie, “Widcraft,” The New York Review of Books, January 15, 2009.
470 “John Updike: the name is graven”: Cynthia Ozick, “God Is in the Details,” The New York Times Book Review, November 30, 2003, 8.
470 “These stories, I feel sure, will weather all times and tides”: Jay Cantor, “Suburban on the Rocks,” Bookforum (Winter 2003).
470 “It is quite possible that by dint of both quality and quantity”: Lorrie Moore, “Home Truths,” The New York Review of Books, November 20, 2003, 16.
471 “[I]t doesn’t do to think overmuch about prizes, does it?”: JU to JCO, September 12, 2006, Syracuse.
471 “For who, in that unthinkable future”: EP, 8.
471 disgusted by the “chip-power” of a desktop PC: JU, Villages (New York: Ballantine Books, 2005), 45.
472 “a method of drawing with a light pen on a computer screen”: Ibid., 132.
473 “Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote”: DC, 68.
473 “Without books, we might melt into the airwaves”: Ibid., 70.
473 he was arguing for “accountability and intimacy”: HG, 421.
474 readers and writers of books were “approaching the condition of holdouts”: Ibid., 422.
474 “Defend your lonely forts”: Ibid.
474 “Our annual birthday do”: EP, 19–20.
474 “How not to think of death?”: Ibid., 19.
475 “Wife absent a day or two, I wake alone, and older”: Ibid., 3.
475 “The fact that he seemed to enjoy talking to me”: Author interview, Ian McEwan, December 5, 2012.
XII. Endpoint
479 “Be with me, words, a little longer”: EP, 19.
479 he was nursing “a cold,” as he put it, “that wouldn’t let go”: Ibid., 21.
480 “What a great country we have here”: JU to Walter Kaiser, November 18, 2008, Houghton.
480 “Is this an end?” he asks. “I hang, half-healthy”: EP, 21.
480 he savored the phrase “CAT-scan needle biopsy”: Ibid., 27.
481 “My visitors, my kin”: Ibid., 23.
481 “My wife of thirty years is on the phone”: Ibid., 24.
482 “Perhaps / we meet our heaven at the start”: Ibid., 27.
482 what he called “the leap of unfaith”: JU, interview with the Associated Press, 2006.
482 “Why go to Sunday school, though surlily”: EP, 29.
483 the idea is “to give the mundane its beautiful due”: ES, xv.
483 “I felt I shouldn’t touch him”: Author interview, MW, July 15, 2012.
485 the “irrational hope” that his last book might be his best: HG, 7.
485 “I find producing anything fraught with difficulty these days”: JU to JCO, November 23, 2005, Syracuse.
485 never tired of “creation’s giddy bliss”: HG, 7.
486 “I’ve remained,” he once said, “all too true to my youthful self”: WMRR.
Index
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Abernathy, Ralph, 274
Academy of Arts and Letters, see American Academy of Arts and Letters
Addams, Charles, 147
Adelaide Festival of Arts, 308
Adler, Renata, 250
Africa:
Updike’s travel to, 308, 309, 392
in Updike’s writing, 309–11, 381
Albee, Edward, 261, 263
Aldridge, John, 272–73, 361, 422
Alfred A. Knopf, 173–75, 180, 187n, 282, 331, 370, 416, 426
book promotion tour, 473
and Cheever, 266
Everyman’s Library, 469
first editions, 406
Jones as Updike editor, 380, 402, 408
and Updike memorial, 484
see also Knopf, Alfred A.
Allen, Mary, “John Updike’s Love of ‘Dull Bovine Beauty,’” 379
Amado, Jorge, 174
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 386–87, 416, 434, 463; see also National Institute of Arts and Letters
American Book Award, 400
The American Courier, 37
American dream, 324
The American Scholar, 270
Amis, Martin, 427
Anderson, Sherwood, 61
André Deutsch Ltd., 203, 299, 385
Angell, Ernest, 111
Angell, Roger, xii, 111, 300, 380–81, 484
Angstrom, Harry “Rabbit” (fict.), 94, 264, 330, 379, 407n, 413
in Rabbit, Run, 197–206, 207, 398
in Rabbit at Rest, 206, 434–38, 469
in Rabbit Is Rich, 206, 392–402
in Rabbit Redux, 206, 332–42
Angstrom, Janice (fict.), 197, 199–200, 204, 205, 252, 337, 379, 399, 400, 413
Anguilla, vacations in, 202, 209, 297
Antaeus, 448
Antibes, Updikes’ exile in, 230, 235–37, 239, 250, 297, 357
Archibald, David, 84
Arlen, Alice, 418
Arlen, Michael, xii, 65, 66, 67, 148, 279, 377, 404, 418
Arno, Peter, 30, 147
Arp, Jean, 30
Astaire, Fred, 144
Athill, Diana, 203, 298, 305
The Atlantic, 468
The Atlantic Monthly, 110, 167n, 294
Atta, Mohamed, 467
Atwood, Margaret, 413
Auden, W. H., 275
Ayer, A. J., 149
Bailey, Anthony “Tony,” 119, 125, 135, 141, 147, 173
Bailey, Blake, Cheever, 480n
Baker, Nicholson, 484
U and I, xii
Baldwin, James, 339
Balliett, Whitney, 177–78
Balzac, Honoré de, 470
Barth, John, 344n
Barth, Karl, 223, 253, 380, 421, 424
Barthelme, Donald, 155, 344n
Bate, Walter Jackson, 77
BBC, What Makes Rabbit Run?, 9, 407–10
Beattie, Ann, 384, 470
Bech, Henry (fict.), 123, 294, 315, 330
in Bech: A Book, 296–97, 332
in Bech at Bay, 332, 411, 446n, 472
in The Complete Henry Bech, 469
models for, 269
in short stories, xi, 264–65, 283–84, 296–99, 303–5, 308, 380, 386, 387, 388, 401, 460–61, 462
Updike’s self-interviews with, xi, 426, 443
Beckett, Samuel, How It Is, 271
Bellow, Saul, 269, 281, 374, 430n
Benchley, Robert, 36, 64
Benét, Stephen Vincent, “Metropolitan Nightmare,” 37n
Berdyaev, Nikolay, 253
Bernhard, Alexander, 211, 355–56, 360, 366, 387, 401
Bernhard, Martha Ruggles, 355–57
marriage to Updike, 211, 381–82; see also Updike, Martha Bernhard
and Nabokov, 355, 365
separation from Alex, 359
Updike’s affair with, 211, 356, 357, 442–43
Berryman, John, 139
Bessie, Simon Michael “Mike,” 162, 170n
The Best American Short Stories 1991, 433
Beverly Farms, Massachusetts:
families in, 405, 409, 439, 475
golf in, 425
Haven Hill in, 402, 403–7, 422, 455, 474, 476
lifestyle
in, 415, 416, 439
St. John’s Episcopalian church, 424–25, 484
birth-control pill, 210
Black Power movement, 338–39, 340
Bloom, Claire, 279–80
Bloom, Harold, 157, 272, 411, 412, 463n
Bloom, Hyman, 78–79
Book Week, 271–72
Borges, Jorge Luis, “Borges and I,” 448–49, 450
Boston:
Gardner Museum in, 441
Hancock Tower in, 358
Kennedy Library in, 484
Museum of Fine Arts in, 417
in Roger’s Version, 419
Updike’s apartment in, 358–61, 368, 370, 372, 403, 442
The Boston Globe, 400, 477
Boston Red Sox, 40
Braque, Georges, 30, 128
Brazil, Updike’s travel to, 315–17
Brewer, George, Jr., 324
Briggs, Austin, 165n, 191, 404–5
Brodkey, Harold, 103, 123
Brown, Tina, 138, 445–46
Broyard, Anatole, 339–40, 369, 400
Brustlein, Daniel, 30
Buchanan, James, 303, 331, 342–43, 368, 442, 443
Bunce, Doug, 69, 70
Caldwell, George (fict.), 41–42, 44, 49, 222, 262, 348–49
The Call to Arms (film), 452
Calvino, Italo, 275
Camus, Albert, 174
Canfield, Cass, 72–73, 146, 162, 170, 171
Cantor, Jay, 470
Capote, Truman, 380
Caro, Robert, The Power Broker, 444
Carr, John Dickson, 36
Carroll, James, 476
Carter, Jimmy, 393, 396, 397
Cary, Joyce, 116
Cather, Willa, 174, 470
The Catholic Worker, 167n
Catullus, 94
Cavett, Dick, 442
Century Association, 101
Cézanne, Paul, 134n, 266
Chandler, David, 85
Chatterbox, 37, 47, 56, 139
Cheever, John, 281, 480
death of, 269
drinking, 370–71
and National Institute of Arts and Letters, 266, 269
and New Yorker, 110, 155, 157
O Youth and Beauty!, 99
Soviet tour of, 251, 265–68
“The Swimmer,” ix
The Wapshot Chronicle, 152–53, 371
Chekhov, Anton, 227, 470
Cher, 412
Chernow, Ron, 16
Chesterton, G. K., 108
Chicago Humanities Festival, 180
China, Updikes’ travels to, 317
Christie, Agatha, 36, 473
Citizen Kane (film), 404
civil disobedience, 322–23, 332
civil rights movement, 255, 257, 273–75, 321, 333, 336
Clayton, Alf (fict.), 442–43
Coates, Robert, 147
Cobblah, John Anoff, 414, 423
Cobblah, Kwame, 414, 423
Cobblah, Tete, 414, 423
Cold War, 255
Collier’s, 37, 122
Commentary, 167n
Commonweal, 167n
Conant, Jerry and Ruth (fict.), 252–55
Condé Nast, 445
Connolly, Cyril, 121
Copland, Aaron, 387
Corry, John, 408
Cosmopolitan, 122
Coward, Noel, 291
Crews, Frederick, 421–22, 424
Crichton, Michael, The Andromeda Strain, 444
Crosby, Bing, 453
Cummings, E. E., 87
da Cunha, Euclides, Rebellion in the Backlands, 316
Danto, Arthur, 417
Davis, Bette, 324
Day, Doris, 47, 401
Day, Robert, 30
Deknatel, Frederick B., 79
Delbanco, Nicholas, 227–28, 282–84, 346, 381n
The Martlet’s Tale, 282
de Rougemont, Denis, Love in the Western World, 240–42, 243, 254, 367
Dertouzos, Michael, 418–19
Deutsch, André, 203, 298, 304, 306, 307, 308, 342, 349, 385
The Dick Cavett Show, 408
Dickens, Charles, 435, 470
Dickinson, Emily, xiii
Dietrich, Marlene, 230
Dimitrova, Blaga, 264–65
Disch, Thomas, 448
Disney, Walt, 91, 105, 149
Donne, John, 94
Dos Passos, John, 269
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 77
Dow, Allen (fict.), 11–15, 20, 44
Eccles, Rev. Jack (fict.), 197–99, 205, 438
Ecenbarger, William, 1–8, 10, 16, 17
“Updike Is Home,” 3–4
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 134, 184, 196, 310
Eliot, George, 435
Eliot, T. S., xiii, 86, 87, 93, 139, 261–62, 298
The Waste Land, 36
Elleloû, Col. Hakim Félix (fict.), 310–11, 468
Ellison, Ralph, 387
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, xiii, 382
England, 298–307; see also Oxford
Esquire, 464
Everyman’s Library, 469
Exley, Frederick, 268
Fairbairn, Douglas, 69n
Fargo, North Dakota, Celebrity Walk of Fame, 431
Faulkner, William, 470
Feeney, Mark, 400
Fiedler, Leslie, 156, 167, 168
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 82, 102, 153, 422, 470
Flair, 64
Fleischmann, Raoul, 130n
Flood, Charles Bracelen, 68
Florida Magazine of Verse, 37
Fo, Dario, 461, 462
Ford, Gerald R., 442
Ford, Richard, 470
Fowler, H. W., 112
Franklin and Marshall College, 343
Franklin Library, Rabbit, Run “Signature Edition,” 379–80
French, Edward A., 63n
Freud, Sigmund, 1, 6, 136, 137, 155, 243, 244, 253, 294, 345, 421
Frimbo, E. M. (pseud.), 362
Frost, Robert, 88, 89
Fulbright grant, 308
Gaddis, William, 344n
Gallegos, Rómulo, Doña Bárbera, 308
Gardner, Erle Stanley, 36
Geismar, Maxwell, 153–54, 155, 156
Georgetown, Massachusetts:
Fourth of July parade in, 435
as transition phase, 407
Updike house in, 373–76, 403
Updike lifestyle in, 385, 387, 400, 406, 409
Geraghty, James, 147
Gibbs, Wolcott, 147
Gibran, Khalil, The Prophet, 174
Gide, André, 174
Gill, Brendan, 119, 125, 141, 147, 148–49
Ginsberg, Allen, 387
Gleason, Ted, 68
Gollancz, Victor, 149, 170, 201–3, 209, 304
Google, 473
Gottlieb, Robert, 138, 444–45, 446
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 202
Graves, Robert, 174
Great Depression, 22–23, 57, 180
Green, Henry:
Concluding, 176, 177
influence on Updike, 114–16, 150, 151, 178
Penguin Classics edition, 115
Griffith, D. W., 452
Grove Press, 202
The Guardian, 476
Guérard, Albert, 77, 94, 95, 96
Gwynne, Fred, 69, 70
Hamburger, Philip, 147
Hamsun, Knut, 174
Hannaford, Reginald, 59, 84
Harper and Brothers, 72–73, 140, 146, 161–63, 168–71, 173, 180
Harper’s, 33, 183
Harrington, Herbert, 211, 228–29, 230, 239–40, 247, 249
Harrington, Joyce:
and Alex, 211
and Herbert, 211, 228–29, 230, 239–40, 247, 249
in Ipswich crowd, 211
Updike’s affair with, 227–29, 251, 254, 258, 259, 262, 357, 367, 410
Updike’s dithering about, 230, 239–40, 242–43, 246, 261, 330, 357, 382
in Updike’s writing, 212, 233, 239, 247, 251,
254, 304
Harvard Gazette, 440
Harvard Lampoon, 63–75
The Castle, 64, 69, 72, 73, 75
as club, 64, 122
election to, 56, 66–67
“Fools’ Week,” 65, 67–68
gag sessions in, 66, 67, 72, 135
Great Hall, 69, 72
initiation fee for, 66n
as magazine, 65
old boy network of, 72
as stepping-stone, 72–74, 91
tryouts for, 63
Updike on staff of, 68, 82
Updike’s contributions in, 66–67, 70–72, 73, 75–76, 91, 93, 138, 139
Harvard Summer School, Updike’s creative writing course in, 225–27
Harvard University:
courses in, 63, 76–79, 87–88
Eliot House, 69
Emerson Hall, 76
Fogg Museum, 79, 81, 135, 234
graduation from, 76, 78
Hollis Hall, 54, 57–58, 62
Lasch as roommate in, 58–61
Lowell House, 59, 72, 84, 87, 92–93
oral examinations for, 91
and Radcliffe, 57, 69, 81, 83
Signet, 92
social life at, 59–60, 61
social pressure at, 63, 65, 74
student body in, 57
transformation effected in, 55, 76, 100–101
Updike as outsider in, 56, 57, 63, 65–66, 81, 82, 92–93
Updike as student in, 49–51, 53–94, 126
Updike’s lectures in, 435–36
Updike’s papers in, xiii
Updike’s thesis in, 91, 93–94
in Updike’s writing, 60–63, 70, 72, 74–75, 80–82, 89, 100–101
Haven, Franklin, 403
Hawkes, John, 344n
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 321, 386
The Scarlet Letter, 323, 369, 418, 419, 421, 425, 440
Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, 476
Hearst, William Randolph, 64
Heller, Joseph, Catch-22, 444
Hellman, Geoffrey, 147
Hemingway, Ernest, 77, 87, 103
influence of, 61, 94, 95
In Our Time, 214
Salinger compared with, 270, 271
Herrick, Robert, 91, 93–94, 96
Hersey, John, 174
“Hiroshima,” 121–22
Hicks, Granville, 205
Hitchens, Christopher, 468, 477
Hitler, Adolf, 315
Hoagland, Edward, 78n
Ho Chi Minh, 275
Holocaust, 315
Hope, Bob, 196
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
