Contribution of John Updike in Literature.

John Hoyer Updike was a versatile American author. He was a novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic and a literary critic at the same time. He is one of the three writers who won Pulitzer Prize for more than one novel. The other two writers are Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner. Updike contributes a lot in the growth of American literature. He wrote more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short story collections, as well as a lot of poetry, art and literary criticism and many children's book.

He basically wrote about "the American small town, Protestant middle class". He had a strong feeling for them. In almost all of his novels he chose middle class people as his characters and described their lives from his view point. 

Updike became popular for his "Rabbit" series. This series include "Rabbit, Run"(1960), "Rabbit Redux"(1971), "Rabbit is Rich"(1981), "Rabbit at Rest"(1990). The protagonist of all these novels is Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a 26 year old former basketball player. Updike here deals with the life journey of this man. With that "Rabbit" series, another novella is related, "Rabbit Remembered"(2001).

His other two important writings are "The Witches of Eastwick"(1984) and its sequel "The Widows of Eastwick"(2008). His another important invention is the character, Henry Bech who is considered to be Updike's alterego. This character appears in his novels like "Bech: A Book"(1970), "Bech is Back"(1982) "Bech at Bay"(1998).