Tag: John Updike

  • Arts & Culture

    Updike’s roots and evolution

    Harvard’s Houghton Library offers a glimpse of a coming treasure trove for scholars, the John Updike Archive.

    6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Treasure island

    Houghton Library illustrates how the stuff of great literature is conserved, from the first jumbled box to the final neat archive.

    11 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    The history at Houghton

    Houghton, a template for university literary archives everywhere, also has room for the odd: A Thoreau pencil, a Dickinson teacup, and more.

    6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Obama honors Robert Brustein

    The American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) founding director Robert Brustein was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama at a ceremony in the White House on March 2.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Updike papers acquired by Houghton Library

    Harvard University has acquired a massive treasure trove of papers from one of its most famous literary graduates, John Updike ’54, the multifaceted novelist, short-story writer, poet, and critic who died last January.

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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard buys Updike archive

    Harvard University has acquired the manuscripts, correspondences, and other papers of John Updike, a celebrated member of the Class of 1954 who kept a Harvard library card and frequently visited the campus to research the contemporary culture that enlivened his acclaimed fiction.

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