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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
&nb
sp; 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
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