Tuesday October 23, 2007
John Updike Reading and book signing
John Updike will give a reading at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 23 in Kenan Auditorium, on the campus of University of North Carolina Wilmington. His talk is part of the Katherine K. Buckner Lecture Series. A book signing, sponsored by Pomegranate Books, will immediately follow.
Updike is the author of over fifty books of fiction, nonfiction, and criticism, among which are the Rabbit novels (Knopf, 1960, 1971, 1981, 1990, and, in novella form, 2000), the Bech stories and quasi-novels (Knopf, 1970, 1982, 1998), the memoir Self-Consciousness (Knopf, 1989), the essay collections Hugging the Shore (Knopf, 1983) and More Matter (Knopf, 1999), and the story compendium The Early Stories: 1953-1975 (Knopf, 2003). In 1999, Updike edited The Best American Short Stories of the Century (Houghton Mifflin). Updike's many literary awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice, for Fiction and Criticism), the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize (twice, for Fiction), and both the National Medal of Arts and the National Medal of Humanities.
The Buckner Lecture Series was established by Charles F. Green, III, in 1994, to bring distinguished guest presenters to UNCW in honor of his friend, Katherine K. Buckner. The Series is co-sponsored by the University of North Carolina Wilmington Department of Creative Writing. Past Buckner Lecturers include novelist Donna Tartt, poets Philip Levine and Jorie Graham, and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.
Brought to you by the Department of Creative Writing.
