John Updike, Separating

Leon Lewis (Appalachian State University)

Ed. by Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburg State University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication Jun 1975

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story

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The Library of America’s publication in 2013 of

Updike: The Collected Early Stories

(#242)and

Updike: The Collected Later Stories

(#243) joined earlier editions including the stories of Henry James (

Complete Stories,

#82, #83), Edith Wharton (

CollectedStories,

#121, #122), Isaac Bashevis Singer (

Collected Stories,

#149, #150, #151), Raymond Carver (

Collected Stories

, #195) and Sherwood Anderson (

Collected Stories,

#235) among those authors to have their short fiction in a separate volume from their other work in the Library of America series. Edgar Allan Poe’s stories appeared as

Poetry and Tales

(#19), F. Scott Fitzgerald’s as

Novels andStories

(#117),even Updike’s

New Yorker

peer/respected rival John Cheever appeared as

Collected Stories &Other Writings

(#188). Updike’s two…

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Citation: Lewis, Leon. "Separating". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 June 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35252, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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