{"id":2250,"date":"2014-07-06T09:32:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2014-07-06T09:32:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T14:32:33","slug":"daily-beast-picks-updike-as-a-best-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/07\/06\/daily-beast-picks-updike-as-a-best-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Beast picks Updike as a Best Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

In selecting “The Best Biographies of 2014 (So Far),”<\/a>\u00a0The Daily Beast<\/em> noted, “Only half way into 2014, historical biographies are already having a banner year. Adam Begley’s Updike<\/em>\u2014a ‘superb achievement’ and ‘brilliant new biography’\u2014is perhaps the most lauded title so far this year in any genre, Ramachandra Guha’s just-published Gandhi Before India<\/em> is garnering similar buzz, and an armload of other big bios are making waves.”<\/p>\n

Of Updike<\/em>, they wrote:<\/p>\n

“The reviews of Adam Begley’s biography of John Updike\u2014the prolific novelist, short story writer, critic, poet, and serial philanderer\u2014approach universal acclaim. Wall Street Journal<\/em>: ‘Begley has a great many strengths\u2014concision, eloquence, an eagle eye\u2014and few of the usual shortcomings.’ Washington Post<\/em>: ‘[A] convincing interpretative biography, one characterized by suavity, wit, and independent judgment throughout.’ Newsday<\/em>: ‘Thoroughly researched, written with intelligence, sympathy and grace, it is a model of first-rate literary biography.’ New York Observer<\/em>: ‘[A] monumental treatment of a towering American writer.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In selecting “The Best Biographies of 2014 (So Far),”\u00a0The Daily Beast noted, “Only half way into 2014, historical biographies are already having a banner year. Adam Begley’s Updike\u2014a ‘superb achievement’ and ‘brilliant new biography’\u2014is perhaps the most lauded title so … Continue reading →<\/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":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","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=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}