Scott Hutchins                  

(March 4, 1974 – Present)

Hutchins is an American novelist and short-story writer. His work has appeared in The New York Times, San Francisco Magazine and Esquire Magazine. His debut novel A Working Theory of Love has been called both “revelatory and exciting” and “ambitious and accomplished.”

Kenneth Grahame         

(March 8, 1859 – July 6, 1932)

Grahame was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children’s literature. It was later adapted into a Disney film.

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John Updike

(March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009)

Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. His most famous work is his “Rabbit” series, which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death.

Anna Sewell

(March 30, 1820 – April 25, 1878)

Sewell was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic novel Black Beauty.

John Fowles

(March 31, 1926 – November 5, 2005)

Fowles was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism.

1.            He was only the third American to win a second Pulitzer Prize in the fiction category.

2.            His first story was published in the New Yorker at the age of 22.

3.            He wrote The Witches of Eastwick (1984), which was turned into a movie in 1987 starring Cher, Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon. In 2009, it was turned into a television show starring Rebecca Romijn.

4.            He won a Knox fellowship for study at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford University.

5.            He began his career as a poet in 1958 by publishing his first volume, a collection of poems titled The Carpentered Hen.

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ISBN: 9780141189406

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Rabbit, Run

by John Updike

ISBN: 9780141187839

It’s 1959 and Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence – stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he resolves to flee from his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a thousand-mile journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life. Because, as he knows only too well, ‘after you’ve been first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate’.

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John Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

Updike’s most famous work is his “Rabbit” series (including the novel Rabbit, Run), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death. Updike is one of only three authors (the others were Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. He published more than twenty novels and more than a dozen short story collections, as well as poetry, art criticism, literary criticism and children’s books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker, starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books.

Enjoy an interview of John Updike discussing “Family Affairs” in the video below.