In addition to poetry, his work included novels ( The Witches of Eastwick, Rabbit Redux, and Rabbit, Run), short stories, music criticism ( Concerts at Castle Hill), and essays on art ( Just Looking: Essays on Art) and golf ( Golf Dreams: Writing on Golf). Updike’s career as a writer has been remarkably prolific and varied. His first book, The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures (1958), was a collection of poems. In an interview Updike stated, “I began as a writer of light verse, and have tried to carry over into my serious or lyric verse something of the strictness and liveliness of the lesser form.” In his teens, he was already publishing poems in magazines. Though he knew that he would not make a living by writing only poetry, his writing career began in 1954 when the New Yorker accepted one of his poems, followed by a short story. Growing up in Pennsylvania, his early inspiration to be a writer came from watching his mother, an aspiring writer, submit her work to magazines. An acclaimed and award-winning writer of fiction, essays, and reviews, John Updike also wrote poetry for most of his life.
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