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Dike
   is the Greek God or Goddess of   
Justice
History & Mythology > Greek Gods


John Updike
   created the character   
Henry Bech
Appears in several stories and novels

Arts & Literature > Characters in Literature


John Updike
   wrote   
Villages
2004

Arts & Literature > Books


John Updike
   created the character   
Jack Levy
Terrorist

Arts & Literature > Characters in Literature


John Updike
   wrote   
Scenes From the Fifties
Arts & Literature > Fiction - Short Stories


Mount Judge
   was created by   
John Updike
Suburb of Brewer in the "Rabbit" novels

Arts & Literature > Fictional Places in Literature


John Updike
   wrote   
The Centaur
National Book Award, 1964

Arts & Literature > Books


John Updike
   wrote   
Rabbit, Run
Arts & Literature > Books


John Updike
   wrote   
Rabbit Redux
Arts & Literature > Books


William O'Donnell
   has the nickname   
Klondike
Misc > Criminal Nicknames


Springer Motors
   was created by   
John Updike
Automobile dealership in the "Rabbit" novels

Arts & Literature > Fictional Places in Literature


Bleak House (1922)
   starred   
Sybil Thorndike, Betty Doyle and Harry Worth
Director: H. B. Parkinson. Also starred Alec Alexander and Stacey Gaunt.

Movies > Movies of the 1920s


John Updike
   said   
"A Healthy Male Adult Bore Consumes Each Year One and a Half Times His Own Weight in Other People’s Patience"
American novelist, poet, short story and literary critic

Language > Quotations


Rabbit At Rest
   was written by   
John Updike
1991

Arts & Literature > Pulitzer Prize for Fiction


John Updike
   wrote   
Seek My Face
2002

Arts & Literature > Books


John Updike
   wrote the book adapted for the film   
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Based on the 1984 book. The movie was turned into an award-winning comedy musical by Cameron Macintosh.

Movies > Films Based On Books


John Updike
   wrote   
Licks of Love in the Heart of the Cold War
Arts & Literature > Fiction - Short Stories


John Updike
   wrote   
The Women Who Got Away
Arts & Literature > Fiction - Short Stories


John Updike
   created the character   
Harry Angstrom
Rabbit Run and other Rabbit novels

Arts & Literature > Characters in Literature


John Updike
   wrote   
Dog's Death
"She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car"

Arts & Literature > Poetry


Deleon
   was created by   
John Updike
Florida town which is the setting for "Rabbit at Rest"

Arts & Literature > Fictional Places in Literature


John Updike
   created the character   
Billy Gregg
The Poorhouse Fair

Arts & Literature > Characters in Literature


John Updike
   created the character   
John Hook
The Poorhouse Fair, 1959

Arts & Literature > Characters in Literature


John Updike
   wrote   
Rabbit at Rest
1990; winner, Pulitizer Prize, 1991

Arts & Literature > Books


Peach
   has a variety named   
Klondike
White flesh

Misc > Fruit and Vegetable Varieties


John Updike
   wrote   
My Father On the Verge of Disgrace
Arts & Literature > Fiction - Short Stories


John Updike
   wrote   
Terrorist
Arts & Literature > Books


John Updike
   wrote   
New York Girl
Arts & Literature > Fiction - Short Stories


Rabbit Is Rich
   was written by   
John Updike
1982. The latest novel in a memorable sequence

Arts & Literature > Pulitzer Prize for Fiction


Klondike Fury (1942)
   starred   
Edmund Lowe, Lucile Fairbanks and William Henry
Director: William K. Howard. Also starred Ralph Morgan, Robert Middlemiss & Jean Brooks. Plot: Dr.John Mandre (Edmund Lowe), brain specialist, is barred from the medical profession when he performs a delicate operation, and he is accused of letting the patient die because of his affection for the man's wife.

Movies > Movies of the 1940s


John Updike
   created the character   
Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy
Terrorist

Arts & Literature > Characters in Literature


John Updike
   wrote   
Personal Archeology
2000

Arts & Literature > Fiction - Short Stories


Brewer
   was created by   
John Updike
Pennsylvania town in "Rabbit Run", 1960; "Rabbit Redux", 1971; "Rabbit is Rich", 1981; "Rabbit at Rest", 1990

Arts & Literature > Fictional Places in Literature


John Updike
   wrote   
Brazil
Arts & Literature > Books


John Updike
   created the character   
Owen Mackenzie
Villages

Arts & Literature > Characters in Literature


John Updike
   wrote   
The Witches of Eastwick
Arts & Literature > Books


Dikephobia
   is an acute fear of   
Justice
Language > Phobias


John Updike
   was in the episode   
Insane Clown Poppy
As himself

Entertainment > The Simpsons - Guest Appearances


John Updike
   wrote   
Perfection Wasted
"And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic"

Arts & Literature > Poetry


John Updike
   wrote   
Rabbit is Rich
Pulitizer Prize and National Book Award, 1982

Arts & Literature > Books


Diamond County Home for the Aged
   was created by   
John Updike
Home in which is set "The Poorhouse Fair", 1959

Arts & Literature > Fictional Places in Literature


John Updike
   was an   
Author
Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist. Best known for his four 'Rabbit' novels, Updike was a prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire; writing novels, short stories, poems, criticism, the memoir ''Self-Consciousness'' and even a famous essay about baseball great Ted Williams. b. 18 March 1932 (Reading, Pennsylvania, USA) d. 27 January 2009 (Danvers, Massachusetts, USA)

History & Mythology > They Died in 2009








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