The Americanness in John Updike’s Works

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009) is an American writer of novels, poetry, short-story known for his all-encompassing delineation of the American, protestant, small-town middle-class life that starts from the 1950s. He won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice in 1982 and 1991. His most outstanding works are The Rabbit Saga (1960, 1971, 1981, 1990), The Centaur (1963), Couples (1968), Bech, A Book (1970), The Witches of Eastwick (1984), A Month of Sundays (1973), Roger’s Version (1986), S (1988), Towards the End of Time (1997). He explored the American middle-class concerning marriage, marital infidelity, sex, religion, family obligations as the significant concerns in his works. Being raised as a protestant, Updike also featured religion and the conventional protestant faith in his works. John Updike is one of the greatest American writers of fiction of his generation being widely lauded as America’s “last true man of letters”.