John Updike, One of Our Greatest
Although John Updike may have been better known for his novels, he was once described by Lorrie Moore as, “quite possibly. . . American literature’s greatest short story writer, and arguably our greatest writer.”
Updike received two Pulitzer Prizes for his Rabbit series and won the 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his large anthology of short stories, The Early Stories 1953-1975. In the preface for that collection, he wrote that his intention had been to “give the mundane its beautiful due.” In 2006 Updike was also awarded the Rea Award for the Short Story for outstanding achievement.
You can read more about his career here and here.
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