Here you will find The Centaurian, a resource that proclaims itself "a John Updike Website for information & discussion." The Centaurian is updated frequently, and includes an interview and other online reading materials. You may also view "What's New in Updikiana," monthly discussion topics, ten content links, a bulletin board, reviews, and rare book purchasing links.

The Salon Interview: John Updike
http://www.salon.com/08/features/updike.html

This interview by the acclaimed online magazine, Salon, is titled "As Close as You Can Get to the Stars." Here you can access an informative two-page interview by the famous writer, as he discusses topics such as his novel In the Beauty of the Lilies, and muses about topics related to the book such as religion, movies, and the decline of popular culture.

New York Times on the Web: John Updike
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/06/lifetimes/updike.html

Here you'll find an extensive guide to every New York Times review of Updike's novels. Included are two excellent RealAudio interviews with the author (58 and 27 minutes long), in which he deals with subjects ranging from writing, to literary criticism, to his home life.

John Updike
http://www.zeal.com/exit.jhtml?wid=137755

This Web site is excellent for an introductory reader who wants a quick and concentrated overview of the author. Brief biographical and bibliographical information can be found here, as well as an overview of his oft-read short story "A&P."

BIOGRAPHY
John Updike (b. 1932) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, the child of a writer and a math teacher. After high school Updike worked as a copy boy for The Reading Eagle for two years before attending Harvard University. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1954 and left for England on a Knox fellowship at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts in Oxford. In England Updike met the editor for The New Yorker, E. B. White, who offered him a staff position at the magazine. Updike left The New Yorker two years later to concentrate on his writing, and in 1958 published the collection of poetry The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures. In 1959 he won a Guggenheim fellowship, which allowed him to work on the novel Rabbit, Run, published in 1960. Three years later Updike published another poetry collection, Telephone Poles and Other Poems, and the novel The Centaur, which won the National Book Award for Fiction. In 1964, at age 32, Updike became the youngest person ever elected for membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters. John Updike has published over 60 books in his distinguished career and has won numerous awards including the O. Henry award in 1966 and the Pulitzer prize twice for Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990), part of his celebrated Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy.