A Tribute to John Updike - Shorts LIVE

A Tribute to John Updike, live from the NYPL Shorts, March 20, 2009. Colleagues, friends and family of John Updike, 27 Died in January 2009, NYPL Titan of American literature gathered to pay homage. David Remnick, Sonny Mehta, Charles McGrath, Judith Jones, Roger Angell, Lorrie Moore, Adam Gopnik, Deborah Garrison, Ann Goldstein, ZZ Packer and David Updike John Updike awarded life with memories and readings from his work. Updike, author of more than 60Books, including novels pm ten, fifteen collections of short stories, seven volumes of poetry and five books for children, was the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Book Awards. He is probably best known for his quartet of novels of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the first of which, Rabbit, Run, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1960, recalls, and the last, in 1990 published Rabbit at rest. In his written half a century for The New Yorker, was fiction, poetry, essays,and criticism of the magazine, more than seventy of his book reviews and essays are collected in two considerations. Before he died, Updike delivered the manuscripts for three new books, all published by the end of this year. This event was presented by Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker