John Updike Remembered

<p> Fifty-three individuals present a prismatic view of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and his work through anecdote and insight. Interviews and essays from family friends and associates reveal sides of the novelist perhaps unfamiliar to the public--the high school prankster the golfer the creator of bedtime stories the charming ironist the faithful correspondent with scholars the devoted friend and the dedicated practitioner of his craft.</p><p> The contributors include his first wife Mary Pennington and three of their children; high school and college friends; authors John Barth Joyce Carol Oates and Nicholson Baker; journalists Terri Gross and Ann Goldstein; and scholars Jay Parini William Pritchard James Plath and Adam Begley Updike's biographer.</p>