Biography+of+John+Updike



John Updike is a writer originally from Shillington, Pennsylvania. Most known for his Rabbit series, Updike is also a renown poet, children's writer and literary critic whose stories often center around a small Protestant middle class family from a small American town. The themes he often uses in his stories are sex, faith and death; often, he shows how the three can be interrelated and sometimes unavoidable. He also prefers using realism and naturalism in his stories to allow for a more graphic depiction of scenes, and uses relationship ideas such as marriage or cheating couples as a focus in his writings.

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