BOOKS BY JOHN UPDIKE, 1958-2019
The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures (1958; poems)
The Same Door (1959; stories)
The Magic Flute (1962)
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories (1962)
Telephone Poles and other poems (1962)
The Ring (1964)
Assorted Prose (1965; essays and reviews)
The Music School (1966; stories)
Bottom’s Dream (1969)
Midpoint and Other Poems (1969)
Seventy Poems (1972)
Museums and Women and Other Stories (1972)
Picked-Up Pieces (1975; essays and reviews)
Tossing and Turning (1977; poems)
Talk from the Fifties (1979; articles)
Too Far to Go (Fawcett, 1979; stories)
Problems and Other Stories (1979)
Hugging the Shore (1983; essays and reviews))
Jester’s Dozen (1984; articles)
The Witches of Eastwick (1984)
Facing Nature (1985; poems)
Just Looking (1989; essays on art)
Self-Consciousness (1989; memoir)
Odd Jobs (1991; essays and criticism)
Memories of the Ford Administration (1992)
Love Factories (1993; stories)
The Afterlife and Other Stories (1994)
A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects (1995; poems)
Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (1995)
In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996)
Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf (1996)
Of Prizes and Print (1998)
More Matter (1999; essays and criticism)
Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, Rabbit Remembered (2000)
The Complete Henry Bech (2001)
Still Looking (2005; articles)
Due Considerations (2007; essays and reviews)
Endpoint and Others Poems (2009)
My Father’s Tears and Other Stories (2009)
Posthumous publications
Always Looking: Essays on Art (2012)
John Updike: The Collected Stories (Library of America, 2013)
John Updike: Selected Poems (2015)
BOOKS ABOUT JOHN UPDIKE, 1969-2018
I. Resources
De Bellis, Jack. The John Updike Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
_____. John Updike Remembered: Friends, Family and Colleagues Reflect on the Writer and the Man. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2017.
Plath, James, ed. Conversations with John Updike. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1994.
_____, ed. John Updike’s Pennsylvania Interviews. Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2016.
Schiff, James. Updike in Cincinnati: A Literary Performance. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2007.
II. Bibliographies
Bozeman, Pat. John Updike: An Exhibition. M. D. Anderson Library: U Park, Tex.: 1985.
De Bellis, Jack. John Updike, 1967-1993: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Foreword by John Updike. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994.
De Bellis, Jack and Michael Broomfield. John Updike: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials, 1948-2007. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. Foreword by John Updike.
Falsey, Elizabeth A. The Art of Adding and the Art of Taking Away: Selections from John Updike’s Manuscripts, an Exhibition at the Houghton Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library, 1987.
Greiner, Donald J. and Elizabeth. A. Falsey. John Updike. First Printings of American Authors: Contributions Toward Descriptive Checklists. Volume V. Ed. Philip B. Eppard. Detroit, Mich.: Gale, 1987. 329-43.
Taylor, C. Clarke. John Updike: A Bibliography. Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 1968.
III. Biographies
Begley, Adam. Updike. New York: HarperCollins, 2014.
De Bellis, Jack. John Updike’s Early Years. Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2013.
IV. Monographs
Baker, Nicholson. U and I. N.Y.: Random House, 1991.
Batchelor, Bob. John Updike: A Critical Biography. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2013.
Boswell, Marshall. John Updike’s Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2001.
Campbell, Jeff H. Updike’s Novels: Thorns Spell a Word. Wichita Falls, Kans.: Midwestern State UP, 1987.
Crowe, David. Cosmic Defiance: Updike’s Kierkegaard and the Maples Stories. Mercer, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2014.
De Bellis, Jack. John Updike: The Critical Responses to the “Rabbit” Saga. Westport, CT: Oak Knoll Press, 2003.
Detweiler, Robert. John Updike. N.Y.: Twayne, 1972. Revised, 1984.
Dill, Scott. A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature. Ohio State Univ. Press, 2018.
Farmer, Michial. Imagination and Idealism in John Updike’s Fiction. Melton, England: Camden House, 2017.
Fromer, Yoav. The Moderate Imagination: The Political Thought of John Updike and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism. Univ. Press of Kansas, 2020.
Greiner, Donald J. John Updike’s Novels. Athens, Ohio: Ohio Univ. Press, 1984.
_____. The Other John Updike: Poems/ Short Stories/ Prose/ Play. Athens, Ohio: Ohio Univ. Press, 1981.
Hamilton, Alice and Kenneth. The Elements of John Updike. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970.
Hunt, George. John Updike and the Three Great Secret Things: Sex, Religion, and Art. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1980.
Keener, Brian. John Updike’s Human Comedy: Comic Morality in The Centaur and the Rabbit Novels. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2005.
Luscher, Robert M. John Updike: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1992.
Markle, Joyce B. Fighters and Lovers: Theme in the Novels of John Updike. N.Y.: New York Univ. Press, 1973.
Mazzeno, Laurence W. Becoming John Updike: Critical Reception, 1958-2010. Melton, England: Camden House, 2013.
McTavish, John. Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike. Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, 2016.
Miller, D. Quentin. John Updike and the Cold War: Drawing the Iron Curtain. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2001.
Morley, Catherine. The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction: John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo. Oxford, U.K.: Routledge, 2008.
Naydan, Liliana M. Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction: Faith, Fundamentalism, and Fanaticism in the Age of Terror. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell Univ. Press, 2016.
Newman, Judie. John Updike. N.Y.: St. Martin’s, 1988.
O’Connell, Mary. Updike and the Patriarchal Dilemma: Masculinity in the Rabbit Novels. Carbondale, Ill.: Univ. of Southern Illinois Press, 1996.
Pritchard, William. John Updike: America’s Man of Letters. Hanover, N.H.: Steerforth Press, 2000.
Ristoff, Dilvo. John Updike’s Rabbit at Rest: Appropriating History. NY: Peter Lang, 1998.
_____. Updike’s America: The Presence of Contemporary American History in John Updike’s Rabbit Trilogy. N.Y.: Peter Lang, 1988.
Samuels, Charles T. John Updike. Univ. of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, No. 79. Minn: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1969.
Schiff, James A. Updike’s Version: Rewriting The Scarlet Letter. Columbia, Mo.: Univ. of Missouri, 1992.
_____. John Updike Revisited. Boston, Mass.: Twayne, 1998.
Searles, George J. The Fiction of Philip Roth and John Updike. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1985.
Svoboda, Frederic. Understanding John Updike. Columbia, S.C.: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 2018.
Tallent, Elizabeth. Married Men and Magic Tricks: John Updike’s Erotic Heroes. Berkeley, Calif.: Creative Arts, 1982.
Taylor, Larry E. Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral Patterns in John Updike’s Fiction. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1971.
Uphaus, Suzanne Henning. John Updike. N.Y.: Frederick Ungar, 1980.
Vargo, Edward P. Rainstorms and Fire: Ritual in the Novels of John Updike. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1973.
Vaughan, Philip H. John Updike’s Images of America. Reseda, Calif.: Mojave, 1981.
V. Collections of Essays
Broer, Lawrence R., ed. Rabbit Tales: Poetry and Politics in John Updike’s Rabbit Novels. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1998.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Views: John Updike. N. Y.: Chelsea House, 1987.
Macnaughton, William R., ed. Critical Essays on John Updike. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1982.
Mazzeno, Laurence W. and Sue Norton, eds. European Perspectives on John Updike. Melton, England: Camden House, 2018.
Olster, Stacey, ed. The Cambridge Companion to John Updike. N.Y.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006.
Rodgers, Jr., Bernard F., ed. Critical Insights: John Updike. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2011.
Shipe, Matthew and Scott Dill, eds. Updike & Politics: New Considerations. Lexington, Ky.: Lexington Books, 2019.
Stafford, William T., ed. Modern Fiction Studies (John Updike Number) 20 (Spring 1974).
Thorburn, David and Howard Eiland, eds. John Updike: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice, 1979.
Trachtenberg, Stanley, ed. New Essays on Rabbit, Run. N.Y.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993.
Yerkes, James, ed. John Updike and Religion: The Sense of the Sacred and the Motions of Grace. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1999.
(This is just a list of books published on Updike or monographs that include a substantial chapter on Updike. For a complete list that includes essays, reviews, and ephemera, consult Jack De Bellis’ and Michael Broomfield’s definitive bibliography, John Updike: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials, 1948-2007. And if anyone knows of new or uncatalogued items by, about, or relating to John Updike, Jack De Bellis would appreciate hearing from you. You can email him at bjd1@Lehigh.edu.)
VI. Theses and Dissertations on John Updike (256, as of May 25, 2014)