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A CHRONOLOGICAL GENRE SUMMARY OF MAJOR WORKS
BY JOHN UPDIKE
All of these works were published by Alfred A. Knopf
Press in New York, except in the three cases where noted. This is a list
only of American trade editions. Most works were also published in England
and translations of several works were made into other European languages.
Many special small printings of his poetry--both works included in the works
cited below and a number not-- were published by several small presses in
special editions. For notations concerning some of these, see Judie Newman,
John Updike (New York: St. Martins Press, 1988), pp.
159-160. There are also numberous specially bound and printed
publications of his earlier works by Knopf, Franklin Mint, and Easton Press.
The
finest source for this kind of information now available, however, is
unquestionably Jack De Bellis, John Updike: A Bibliography, 1967-1993
(Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1994). Pp. ix-355). This resource
is definitive for the period noted and for the range of publication information.
Anyone seriously interested in any form of Updike studies or research cannot
afford to be without it. An earlier book, John Updike: A
Bibliography (Kent State University Press, 1968), but C. Clarke Taylor,
covers with annotations the first phase of Updike's publishing career up
to 1967, including articles from his high school newspaper, The Chatterbox
(starting 1949) and from the Harvard Lampoon (starting
1951). An excellent discussion of each Updike work and a detailed life
chronology are also now available in Jack De Bellis' The John Updike
Enclyclopedia (Westport, CN: Greenwood Press,
2000). Pp. xxxiii-545). This is a splendid resource.
For a current bibliography of Updike criticism see James Yerkes,
ed., John Updike and Religion: The Sense of the Sacred and the
Motions of Grace (Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge, UK: Wm. B. Eerdmans
Publishing Company, 1999; Pp. vii-301. ), pp. 269-278. The book itself
contains fifteen original essays in three sections: John Updike and the Religious
Dimension, John Updike and the Christian Religion, John Updike and American
Religion.
In addition, those who, like me, are collectors
of John Updike's works should be aware of a resource which I have found
exceedingly helpful. I refer to the John Updike Author Price
Guide published by Quill & Brush Press, owned and operated
by Patricia and Allen Ahearn. They produce author lists which provide
chronologically organized bibliographical and publishing detail (first issues
and first editions, limited editions, number of copies published, recent
pricing levels, etc.). The last Updike list was prepared January 1998.
The current list is 21 pages long and costs $12.00. It is a must for
any serious collector, as well as a great help for those who shop in
old bookstores for Updike works just for the fun of it.
You may write to them at Quill & Brush Press, P.
O. Box 5365, Rockville, MD 20848. Their web home page address
is:
http://qbbooks.com Their email address is:
firsts@qb.com.
Caricatures by
Jules Feiffer
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NOVELS
The Poorhouse Fair
1959
(New Knopf Hardback Edition, February
1977; new Ballantine Paperback Edition, March 2004)
Rabbit, Run
1960
The Centaur
1963
Of the Farm
1965 (New Ballantine
Paperback Edition, March 2004)
Couples
1968
Rabbit Redux
1971
A Month of Sundays
1975
Marry Me: A Romance
1976
The Coup
1978
Rabbit Is Rich
1981
The Witches of Eastwick
1984
Roger's
Version 1986
S.
1988
Rabbit at Rest
1990
Memories of the Ford Administration
1992
Brazil
1994
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy
1995. Everyman's Library (Knopf )
#214. With a special Introduction by John Updike, Select
Bibliography, and Chronology, pp. ix-xxxi. New two-volume
Ballantine Paperback Edition, without the
Introduction, November 2003)
In the Beauty of the
Lilies 1996
Toward the End of Time
1997
Gertrude and Claudius
2000
Seek MyFace 2002 (Published
19 November 2002)
Villages (October 2004)
Terrorist (June 2006)
The Widows of Eastwick (Due 2008)
(23 Separate Novels--plus Rabbit Angstrom
as a compilation)
SHORT
STORIES
The Same Door: Short Stories
1959
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
1962
The Music School: Short Stories
1966
Museums and Women and Other
Stories 1972
Problems and Other
Stories 1979
Trust Me: Short Stories
1987
The Afterlife and Other Short Stories
1994
Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit
Remembered" 2000. Easton Press special
edition published March 2001. The Ballantine Books paperback edition (ISBN
0345442016) was published 27 November 2001.
The Early Stories, 1953-1975
2003
(8 Short Story Collections--with The Early
Stories 1953-1975 a total of 9)
CONNECTED SHORT STORIES
Olinger Stories: A Selection
1964. New York: Vintage Books-A
Division of Random House, 1964. V-257.
Bech: A Book
1970
Too Far to Go: The Maple Stories
1979. New York: Fawcett
Crest, 1979. First edition ISBN 0-449-24002-9
Bech Is Back
1982
Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel
1998
The Complete Henry Bech: Twenty Stories.
Introduction by Malcom
Bradbury 2001.
Everyman's Library (Knopf) #264.
(5 Connected Short Story Books--plus The
Complete Henry Bech)
POETRY
The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures
1958 (New York: Harper [Published
March 19, in honor of Updike's birthday March 18]; First Knopf
Edition, 1982)
Telephone Poles and Other Poems
1963
Verse
(Combination of
the two volumes above) 1965. New York: Fawcett Crest, February
1965.
Midpoint and Other Poems
1969
Tossing and Turning
1977
Facing
Nature 1985
Collected Poems
1953-1993 1993
Americana and Other Poems 2001
(Not Cancelled Yet 2003. Limberlost
Press in Boise, Idaho, published a special edition book of thirteen poems,
100 of which were signed and specially bound in hard
covers (ISBN 0-931659-88-4) and 700 were hand sewn in paper (ISBN
0-931659-87-6). This is not a "trade edtion" and must be
special ordered.)
(9 Poetry Books--plus the Collected
Poems anthology)
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
The Magic Flute
(An adaptation of Mozart's opera)
1962
The Ring
(An adaptation of Wager's opera)
1964
A Child's Calendar
(Poetry) 1965
Illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert.
Revised edition published
by Holiday House, New York, 1999, with illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman.
Bottom's Dream
(An adaptation of Shakespeare's
A Midsummer Night's Dream) 1969
A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects
1995 (Poetry)
Photographs by David Updike.
(5 Children's Books)
PLAYS
Three Texts from Early Ipswich: A Pageant
1968 Ipswich, MA: 17th Century
Day Committee.
Buchanan
Dying 1974
New Edition August 2000,
with a new Updike Foreword. Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA.
"The Fisherman and His Wife"
Published only in The Texas Arts Journal
1977, No. 1, published by Cameron Northouse. Updike's "The Fisherman
and His Wife, A tale from the Brothers Grimm, The Liberetto of a Children's
Opera, adapted by John Updike," pp. 13-38.
(3 Play Items and Adaptations)
ESSAYS AND LITERARY CRITICISM
Assorted
Prose 1965
Picked-Up Pieces
1975
Hugging the Shore
1983
Odd Jobs
1991
More Matter 1999
[On Literary
Biography 1999/2000] A special printing
essay.
Due Considerations (2007) Publication
date: 23 October 2007
(6 Major Books of Essays and Criticism; 1 Special Printing
of a Literary Essay)
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf
1996
ART CRITICISM
Just Looking: Essays on Art
1989.
New Edition December
2000, paperback with a new Updike Foreword. Museum of Fine
Art, Boston.
Still Looking: Essays in American Art.
November 2005
MEMOIRS
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs
1989
[Photograph by Martha Updike]
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