Adam Begley’s bio continues to get attention more than half a year after its publication. The latest are a couple more inclusions on lists:<\/p>\n
The Chicago Tribune<\/em>‘s Kevin Nance featured\u00a0Updike as one of their\u00a0“Fiction, nonfiction books to gift.”<\/a><\/p>\n Updike<\/em> by Adam Begley (Harper, $29.99)<\/strong><\/p>\n For fans of the great American author of the epochal “Rabbit” books and a groaning shelf of other novels and collections of poems, essays and criticism, this is the biography we’ve been waiting for. Richly reported, appreciative but warts-and-all, Begley’s book connects the dots between John Updike’s work, his contradictory personality and his often turbulent, even scandalous life, which fueled those famous fictional sex scenes. He knew whereof he wrote.<\/p>\n Updike<\/em> also made the BookPage<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0“Best Books of 2014”<\/a> list, coming in at #17, with a link to an April 2014 column<\/a> by Robert Weibezahl that also used the “connect-the-dots” analogy to describe Begley’s “evenhanded portrait of Updike as highly intelligent, diligent in his work habits, impish in humor and general kind, that nonetheless does not whitewash his less admirable traits . . . .”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adam Begley’s bio continues to get attention more than half a year after its publication. The latest are a couple more inclusions on lists: The Chicago Tribune‘s Kevin Nance featured\u00a0Updike as one of their\u00a0“Fiction, nonfiction books to gift.” Updike by … Continue reading