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Volume 71, Issue 98,
Monday, February 27, 2006
News Noted author John Updike to read at UH Cougar News Services Acclaimed American author, John Updike, will speak at 4:15 p.m. today at the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library. The free lecture will take place in The Honors College Lounge as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. Updike is the author of more than 50 books, including his two Pulitzer Prize winning novels, Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest. He is also the author of numerous poems and literary analyses. He last visited the University in 1985 when he read to an audience of nearly 1,000 in the UH Hilton as part of the University's Writers in Society series. After graduating from Harvard in 1954, Updike worked for The New Yorker as a staff writer, writing editorials and poetry. Updike published his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, in 1959. His most recent novel, Villages, was published in 2004 and chronicles an American man's life in a New England community. Villages is Updike's 21st novel. His next novel, Terrorists, is scheduled to be released in June. Updike's repertoire also includes Still Looking, a collection of essays about artwork, published in 2005. Updike lives in Massachusetts with his second wife Martha whom he married in 1977. He has four children. Updike will read selections of his work at 7:30 p.m.
at the Alley Theater, 615 Texas Ave. The admission is $10 and doors open
at 6:45 p.m. Updike will be available for book signings after the reading.
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