The Witches of Eastwick

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair;. the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run;. Rabbit Redux. ; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest. ); Marry Me;. The Witches of Eastwick,. which was made into a major feature film; Memories of the Ford Administration; Brazil; In the Beauty of the Lilies;. Toward the End of Time;. Gertrude and Claudius;. and Seek My Face. He has written a number of collections of short stories, including The Afterlife and Other Stories. and Licks of Love. , which includes a final Rabbit story, Rabbit Remembered. His essays and criticism first appeared in publications such as the New Yorker. and the New York Review of Books. , and are now collected into numerous volumes. Collected Poems 1953-1993. brings together almost all of his verse, and a new edition of his Selected Poems. is forthcoming from Hamish Hamilton. His novels, stories, and non-fiction collections have won have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award and the Howells Medal. Updike graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at the New Yorker. , and he lived in Massachusetts from 1957 until his death in January 2009.