{"id":2199,"date":"2014-06-23T08:20:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T13:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2014-06-23T08:20:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T13:20:25","slug":"telegraph-names-begley-bio-a-best-book-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/06\/23\/telegraph-names-begley-bio-a-best-book-of-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegraph names Begley bio a best book of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Telegraph<\/em> has come up with a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/bookreviews\/10828075\/The-best-books-of-2014.html\">&#8220;The best books of 2014\u2014The must-read novels, memoirs and history books released in 2014 so far.&#8221;<\/a> In the category of biography, Adam Begley&#8217;s <em>Updike<\/em> made the cut with a five-star (out of five) rating,\u00a0flanked by biographies on Updike&#8217;s literary frenemy Philip Roth, T.E. Lawrence, British politician Roy Kenkins, and Karl Marx&#8217;s daughter, Eleanor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Begley&#8217;s biography shows just how closely and relentlessly Updike mined his own life for fiction,&#8221; the editors write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph has come up with a list of &#8220;The best books of 2014\u2014The must-read novels, memoirs and history books released in 2014 so far.&#8221; In the category of biography, Adam Begley&#8217;s Updike made the cut with a five-star (out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/06\/23\/telegraph-names-begley-bio-a-best-book-of-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2200,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}