Updike (76 page)

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

Saint Louis Literary Award, 430n

St. Thomas, Updike’s trip to, 380

Sale, Roger, 400

Salinger, J. D., 281

Franny and Zooey,
270–71

influence of, 99, 157, 213

“Just Before the War with the Eskimos,” 77, 99

and
New Yorker,
17n, 77, 153, 155

Updike’s reviews of his work, 270–71, 370

Sand, George, 470

Sandberg, Carl, 87

Saramago, José,
Baltasar and Blimunda,
461

Sarandon, Susan, 412

Saroyan, William, 103

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 174

The Saturday Evening Post,
37, 102, 122

Saturday Review,
153, 167n

Sayre, Joel, 116

Sayre, Nora, 116

Scientific American,
419

Scott, Sir Walter,
The Bride of Lammermoor,
36

Sennett, Mack, 452–53

September 11 attacks, 465–67, 468

Shakespeare, William, 448

Shaw, George Bernard, 77

Shaw, Irwin, 154

Shawn, William, 135, 464

death of, 142, 444

and
New Yorker
evolution, 138, 362, 444, 445, 446

and
New Yorker
traditions, 138n, 146

pushed aside, 138, 444

and Updike’s career, 102, 109, 117, 118, 124, 141–43, 151, 444

Updike’s memoir of, 118, 142

and White’s obituary, 111

Sheed, Wilfred, 291

Shepard, Alan, 196

Sherrill, Goldthwaite, 199

Sherwood, Robert, 64

Shilling, Clint, 28

Shillington, Pennsylvania:

and change of, 23–24, 29, 31, 101, 159, 322

churchgoing in, 38–39

escape from, 50, 55–56, 101, 127, 152, 405, 457, 471

Grace Lutheran Church, 39

high school in, 23, 33, 41, 47–48, 49, 52, 54, 65, 80, 199, 225, 336, 391

interviewers’ visits to, 1–2, 16

move to Plowville from, 21, 31, 32–36, 38, 101, 261, 320, 327, 432–33

as Olinger, 2, 40, 41, 48, 99, 101, 145, 163, 172, 185

Stephen’s Luncheonette, 47, 49, 55

Updike’s early years in, 29–30, 46, 244, 336, 486

Updike’s nostalgia for, 7, 31, 56, 78n, 99–100, 113–14, 145, 159, 163, 186, 190, 327, 336, 373, 388, 403n, 427, 428, 432, 482, 486

in Updike’s writing, 5–6, 7–8, 10, 27, 29, 48, 56, 78n, 99–100, 113–14, 145, 158, 173, 176, 185, 186, 190, 322, 388, 427, 428, 453

Sinclair, Upton, 103

Sitwell, Osbert, 193

Skeeter (fict.), 333–35, 337–41

Sky & Telescope,
419

Smiley, Jane, x

Smith, Raymond, 280, 373

Smithsonian Institution, 317

Sondheim, Stephen, 387

Spain, Updike travels to, 312, 317

Spark, Muriel, 271

Spenser, Edmund, 77

The Faerie Queene,
87

Spock, Benjamin, 136, 253

Sport,
440

SS
Leonardo da Vinci,
229–30

SS
Rotterdam,
297

Stafford, Jean, 111

Steinbeck, John, 263

Steinberg, Saul, 387, 416, 441

Steiner, George, 306, 362, 363

Stendhal, 358

Steuben Glass, 282

Stevens, Wallace, 87, 174

Stevenson, Adlai E., 89, 196

Stewart, Payne, 195

Stravinsky, Igor, 71

Streeter, Edward, 72

Styron, William, 103

The Confessions of Nat Turner,
338–39

Summer, Donna, 394

Summer of Love, 255, 321

Swift, Jonathan, 87

Taper, Bernard, 277–78

Tarbox (fict. town):

founding of, 322

and JFK assassination, 257

in Updike’s writing, 184, 185, 246, 247, 249, 257, 287n, 288–93, 303, 321–23, 343

Targ Editions, 380

Tertullian, 419

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 435

Thomas, Dylan, 87

Thompson, Lovell, 183, 203

Thurber, James, 30, 36, 116–17, 140, 146, 416

Ticknor and Fields, 17

Time
:

articles about Updike in, 20, 184–85

critical reviews in, 155–56, 250–51

Updike interviews in, 92, 152, 207, 214, 289

Updike on cover of, 1, 292–93

Tolstoy, Leo, 77

Tootsie Roll company, 227

The Transatlantic Review,
45, 301

Trilling, Diana, 294, 333–34

Trilling, Lionel, xii

Tristan and Iseult, 239–43, 258, 316, 367

Trollope, Anthony, 470

Truman, Harry S., 139

Tucci, Niccolò, 147

Tucson, Arizona, Updike house in, 474

Turgenev, Ivan, 153

Turner, Nat, 339

Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de, 133

University of Michigan, 476

Updike, David (son):

birth and infancy of, 134n, 146–47, 161

childhood of, 231, 284, 299, 331

and his father’s illness and death, 483, 484

and his father’s will, 416

in his father’s writing, 329, 347–48, 349–50, 367, 376, 427

in interviews, 9, 354n, 410

in Ipswich, 321

marriage and family of, 415n, 438, 439

at prep school, 359

at wedding of John and Martha, 382

as writer, 376, 384–85, 391

Updike, Elizabeth Pennington “Liz” (daughter):

at Bennington College, 359, 391

birth and infancy of, 107, 113, 119, 297

childhood of, 147, 231, 284

children of, 414, 415n, 423

and her father’s birthday, 441

and her father’s illness and death, 483, 484

and her father’s will, 416

in her father’s writing, 329, 346–47, 352, 367, 376

in Ipswich, 320–21, 325

marriage of, 376

as teenager, 299, 320–21, 325

travels with, 307–8

and wedding of John and Martha, 382

Updike, Hartley (grandfather), 42–43

Updike, John Hoyer:

“abstract-personal” work of, 234–37, 246–47, 254–55

and adultery, 159, 197, 207, 208–12, 218–20, 223, 224, 227–29, 230–31, 233–34, 236–37, 242, 245, 253, 254, 258–59, 262, 285–86, 287, 294, 303, 328, 344, 346, 354–55, 356, 366, 368, 369, 378, 389, 409, 442, 465

and aging, 429, 437–38, 446n, 452, 454–55, 456–57, 469, 474–75

ambition of, xii-xiii, 41, 46, 50, 55, 77, 82–83, 91, 101, 103, 126, 127, 138, 139, 141, 148, 149–50, 151, 209, 266, 287, 299, 391, 450, 471

amour-propre, 14–15, 31, 46, 56, 170, 172, 242, 245, 253, 257–59, 272, 273, 287, 300, 352, 354, 379, 389

art studies of, 91, 105–6, 114

author’s contacts with, xi, 53–54

awards and honors to, 42, 91, 92, 105, 145, 209, 250, 251, 265–66, 308, 400, 402, 416, 430, 433, 434–35, 437, 461–62, 470, 477–78

birth of, 3, 22

books by,
see
Updike, John Hoyer, books by

cartoons by, 67, 70, 77, 91

childhood of, 23–30, 50, 297

and cities, 40–41

compartmentalization by, 190, 228, 244, 294, 331, 353, 354, 355, 364, 422

as critic, 143, 225, 240–41, 243, 270–71, 279–80, 374, 384, 416–18, 461, 462–63, 475, 480

critical reviews of his work, 271–73, 294, 310, 316, 332, 333–34, 339–41, 360–64, 369–70, 400–401, 412, 413, 421–22, 434–35, 447, 452, 454, 456–57, 458–61, 468, 469, 470

death of, xi, 484–86

in England, 104–9, 113, 116–17, 298–302, 305–6

and escape, 48–51, 53, 54, 56, 157, 180, 194, 204, 222, 226, 251, 296, 322, 343, 347, 351, 357, 382, 384, 405, 428, 437, 453, 473

European exile of, 229–30, 235–37, 239, 250, 297, 357

and fatherhood, 151, 166, 172, 207, 223, 230–32, 246, 299, 321, 329–30, 331, 346–48, 349, 351, 372, 385, 389, 390–92, 398, 409, 423

and feminists, 255, 378–79, 412, 413, 418, 425–26, 459–60

final illness and death of, 479–86

focus on details, 112, 115, 168–69, 174

and grandchildren, 414–15, 423, 438–39, 481–82

and Harvard, 49–51, 53–94;
see also
Harvard
Lampoon
; Harvard University

health issues of, 56–57, 222–23, 238, 243, 360, 423, 428–29, 479–82

income of, 73, 109, 110n, 117, 124, 138, 158, 172, 180, 226, 251, 282, 294, 299, 312, 324, 417, 446, 470, 471, 476

interviews with, 1–8, 9, 15n, 49, 53–54, 73n, 92, 152, 154, 195, 203, 207, 214, 222, 227, 281, 284–85, 289, 293, 354, 376–79, 412, 422, 443, 462, 475, 476

living by himself, 357, 358–61, 368, 370, 384, 403, 442

and marriage, 84, 89–90, 165–66, 211–13, 241, 242–45, 251, 277, 285, 306–7, 344–45, 356–57

and Martha,
see
Bernhard, Martha Ruggles; Updike, Martha Bernhard

and Mary,
see
Pennington, Mary; Updike, Mary Pennington

and nostalgia, 3, 13–14, 176, 189–90, 219, 249, 255, 388–90, 431–32, 452, 460, 482;
see also
Shillington

and obscenity laws, 201–3

papers of, xiii, 471

parents of,
see
Updike, Linda Hoyer; Updike, Wesley Russell

personal traits of, 38, 48, 53, 66, 102, 103, 138, 185, 259, 285, 306, 374, 427–28

poems by,
see
Updike, John Hoyer, poems by

professional path of, 102–3, 209

as prolific writer, 119–20, 138, 141, 153, 179, 194, 281, 361, 401, 406–7, 449

psoriasis of, 26, 57, 90, 103, 118, 202, 358, 360, 423

and psychotherapy, 243–45, 248, 249, 368

public persona of, ix-xi, 102, 152, 172, 184–85, 259, 263–64, 266, 267, 269, 278, 286, 293–94, 295, 312, 374, 375, 377, 407–8

public speaking, 7, 19n, 188–89, 190, 376, 377, 380, 381, 386, 416, 435–36, 461–62, 473, 479

real life as source of fiction, 8–16, 21, 31–32, 41–42, 52, 98, 126, 129–30, 132–33, 134, 136, 137, 163, 179, 185, 190, 199, 211, 212–15, 219–25, 234, 247–48, 249–50, 270, 273, 342, 345–50, 351–55, 367–70, 471

and religion, 38–40, 103, 107–8, 114, 133, 179, 196–97, 217, 218, 220, 221, 223–24, 317, 327, 328, 418–20, 424, 482–83

reputation of, 1, 2, 53, 92, 154, 186, 294, 407, 427, 449, 458–60, 462

sensitivity to criticism (of others), 155–57

sex scenes in writing of, 200–201, 203, 212–13, 294, 340

sixtieth birthday of, 441–42