A Tribute to John Updike

Jun 7, 2009

Kennedy (John F.) Presidential Library PEN New England

A panel of fellow writers and friends talked about two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike, who passed away on January 27, 2009, at the age of 76. Authors Nicholson Baker, who wrote about his Updike obsession in .. Read More
A panel of fellow writers and friends talked about two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike, who passed away on January 27, 2009, at the age of 76. Authors Nicholson Baker, who wrote about his Updike obsession in U and I: A True Story, Samuel Shem (pen-name of Dr. Stephen Bergman), and Anne Bernays; editor and journalist Charles McGrath; critic and scholar William Pritchard, author of Updike: America's Man of Letters (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005); and his eldest child, a painter, paid tribute to author John Updike. Radio/Internet host Christopher Lydon was master of ceremonies. This Kennedy Library Forum, "A Tribute to John Updike," was held on Sunday, June 7, at 3 p.m. in Stephen Smith Hall at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston. This program was presented in conjunction with PEN New England.

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  • Baker, Nicholson
  • Bergman, Stephen M.D.
  • Bernays, Anne
  • Cobblah, Elizabeth Updike
  • Lydon, Christopher
  • McGrath, Charles
  • Pritchard, William H.
  • Putnam, Thomas J.