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This is a reprint of Updike's article by the same name in The New Yorker in 1998. Bech first appeared in Updike's works in 1964 in a short story called "The Bulgarian Poetess" His life was famously continued in three Updike novels in 1970, 1982 and 1998. This subsequent short story finds Bech as an old man, remembering the women of his life.
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John Updike
Author · 86 books
John Hoyer Updike was an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered). Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest both won Pulitzer Prizes for Updike. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class," Updike is well known for his careful craftsmanship and prolific writing, having published 22 novels and more than a dozen short story collections as well as poetry, literary criticism and children's books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems have appeared in The New Yorker since the 1950s. His works often explore sex, faith, and death, and their inter-relationships. He died of lung cancer at age 76.
