Biography John Apdike

The reproduced literature “We are dying without love or at best live crippled” John Hoyer Updike was a modern American writer awarded two Pulitzer prizes in - x years. Having become the author of 23 novels, the prose writer described reality, where the “middle Protestant class” acted as the main character. Childhood and youth, the biography of John Apdike began on March 18 with birth in the family of a teacher of the Pennsylvanian district Berks.

The earliest children's recollection was the writer's activity of the mother, surrounded by books and telling her son about the river and forest. For this, other creative achievements John was elected president of the class, and in the year he received a scholarship that allowed him to go to Harvard. There, the future writer took a course of English poetry and composed humor for a magazine called Harvard Lampoon.

And after successfully passing exams and receiving a diploma with honors, he visited Ryoskin’s art school and wanted to move to live in London. Personal life in his student years, being a member of an elite society, Apdike visited secular rarats and thus arranged his personal life. In m, his first wife was Mary E. Pennington, a former student of the college of elegant arts. Some time after the wedding, children appeared in the writer's family, and then suddenly there was a break.

Having barely coped with the current situation, he found the strength in a new relationship and was combined with a marriage with Martha Bernard, whom he loved and idolized until the end of his life. Despite the desire to stay in the UK, APDAIK returned to the United States of America and in the end of the X released collections of short stories. After a couple of years, he published the first novel about the basketball player, and then wrote the continuation of “The Rabbit returned” and “rabbit rich”.

In the years, having become famous as the author of the “centaur” and “trilogy about Beke”, John was awarded the prizes of the circle of book critics. And the readers fell in love with the author for the fact that his plots were closely connected with the small cities of America and concerned quite ordinary and each understandable issues. Then, the writer received the Pulitzer Prize and the Union League Club award for the work that was a series of novels about the rabbit, and then wrote a story called “Istuyk Witches”, which was based on a film adaptation made by George Miller.

At the end of the 10ths, when Bibliography of the APDAK was replenished with books such as Brazil and Permanent Life, the cinemas showed a film that became a new version of evil spirits from Istu, and a novel called Gertrude and Claudius appeared on sale. In the year, returning to the early works, John published a collection of stories, numbering near the pages.

These miniatures were characterized by attention to sensory relations, which, combined with Christian problems, came out of the usual boundaries. Thanks to the wealth of images and well -aimed expressions that have become quotes, the Apdike managed to embellish the really existing world. So it was in the works “In the Beauty of Lilia” and “Village”, as well as in the last novel published under the name “Terrorist”.

In this work, who told about the fate of the Islamist, the author studied the issues of the origin of religious sects. And in the final, when the hero is already ready to commit a crime, he finds the only right answer with the help of sanity. Thanks to this approach, in addition to Pulitzer Prizes, the Apdike was awarded a number of other awards, in his piggy bank there were an art medal for outstanding achievements and the national humanitarian medal.

Critics, which evaluating the work created by the American writer, called him the “most elegant and cold -blooded creator,” noting that the tendency to observe the decomposition of the morals of the population “broke the curse of incompleteness that persecuted the national letter”.

Having lived, until the beginning of the 21st century, the Apdike continued to write novels, but the cold, which caused health problems, overtook it in the late X. Despite the qualified medical care provided by the employees of the Massachusetts Hospice, the cause of the death of the summer writer was lung cancer and lymph nodes. This happened on January 27 of the year.

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