John Updike November 13, 2008

For more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet and critic John Updike has probed the deepest recesses of the American soul in masterful works chronicling the enchantments and disenchantments, the revelations and self-deceptions, and the failures and dubious triumphs of our era. Written over the span of four decades, his famed Rabbit series of novels, featuring the indelible Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom, serves as a sprawling epic of the late 20th century and collectively deserves the right to be called the Great American novel. Now one of the world’s greatest living writers makes a rare appearance at UCLA Live’s Royce Hall on the heels of his latest release The Widows of Eastwick, a sequel to his blockbuster 1984 novel, The Witches of Eastwick.