{"id":4606,"date":"2019-01-30T17:20:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T23:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2019-01-30T19:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T01:32:28","slug":"updike-is-one-of-10-important-late-20th-century-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/01\/30\/updike-is-one-of-10-important-late-20th-century-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike is one of 10 important late 20th-century authors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Updike continues to find recognition and relevance, recently included in \u200b<em>ThoughtCo<\/em>\u2019s \u201c10 Important Contemporary and Late-20th-Century Authors,\u201d written by Mark Flanagan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decades after his time, Updike\u2019s legacy continues to hold relevance in the 21st century after he\nwas recognized as \u201c\u200bone of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than\nonce.\u201d\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Updike\u2019s renowned \u200bRabbit Angstrom novels, <em>Of the Farm<\/em> (1965) and <em>Olinger Stories: A Selection<\/em> (1964) had been \u201cnamed in 2006 among the best novels of the past 25 years in a \u200b<em>New York Times<\/em>\u200b <em>Book Review<\/em> survey,\u201d Flanagan reminds us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/important-contemporary-authors-852801\">full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Updike continues to find recognition and relevance, recently included in \u200bThoughtCo\u2019s \u201c10 Important Contemporary and Late-20th-Century Authors,\u201d written by Mark Flanagan. Decades after his time, Updike\u2019s legacy continues to hold relevance in the 21st century after he was recognized &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/01\/30\/updike-is-one-of-10-important-late-20th-century-authors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4614,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions\/4614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}