17. John Updike With attention to the use of religion and spirituality in his work Mr. Updike consistently relies on the challenging of current social norms along a conservative and fundamental Protestant setting.
18. John Updike Christianity Today writer Mark Buchanan observes this with these words: Updike sets most of his novels in a contemporary Americanculture that has thrown off its Puritanism with a vengeance (though a residue remains). His characters inhabit a world with at most a saccharine coating of Christian faith and deeply eroded ethics (Buchanan).
19. John Updike Mr. Updike took American literature to another level Wall Street Journal writer Allen Brooke declares,“Mr. Updike spoke as the high priest of the sexual revolution, with all its concomitant adulteries and divorces and self-indulgence.” (Brooke)
20. John Updike Mr. Updike made a vocation of telling captivating stories of middle-class American Long before popular television shows such as “Sex in the City” and “Desperate Housewives” tantalized viewers, a prolific American writer exposed readers to the guilty pleasure of sexually illicit dramas.
22. John Updike Work Cited 1of 2 Academy of Achievement. Washington D.C., 11 August 2009. Web.18 July 2010 Brooke, Allen. "John Updike, Literary High Priest Of Sex and Suburbia, Is Dead at 76." Wall Street Journal. 28 Jan. 2009, Eastern edition: National Newspaper Abstracts (3), ProQuest. Web. 18 Jul. 2010. Buchanan, Mark. “Rabbit Trails to God”. Christianity Today. 1 July 2003. Web. 18 July 2010.
23. John Updike Work Cited 2 of 2 Gopnik, Allen. “John Updike” New York Times. 9February 2009. Web. 18 July 2010. Schopen, Bernard A. "Faith, Morality, and the Novels of John Updike." Twentieth Century Literature 24.4 (1978): 523-26. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 July 2010.
