We asked Mr. Carduff to choose ten of his favorite Updike books in a variety of genres. 1. Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy - Rabbit, Run Rabbit Redux Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit at Rest: this. John Updike 1932-2009 was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. he was a staffer at The New Yorker. He is the author of more than sixty books, including collections of short films. ยท John Updike watches Ted Williams' final game with the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. NewYorkerArchiveBy Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. January 28, 2009. John Updike, the kaleidoscopically talented writer whose quartet of Rabbit novels brought to light such a vast body of fiction, verse, essays, and criticism. JOHN UPDIKE was a hack. Not the literary type, of course, the expression Giant of American Letters seems inadequate for someone who has such a mastery of the novel, the short story, the essay, the poem, the review and, yes, even the sports report. Updike, who died of lung cancer last week, was also an avid golfer, having started playing in his community,