At Home; John Updike; 101
- Series
- At Home
- Program
- John Updike
- Episode Number
- 101
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-15-tx3513v98g
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- Description
- Description
- In this program we sit with John Updike in his study surrounded by mementos, private treasures, family pictures and his twenty books. Reading his own words on his boyhood, we see stills of Updike as a boy growing up in Pennsylvania, Harvard, family, colleagues, and relaxing. He tells marvelous stories of learning the art of pratfalls to become socially acceptable at Harvard, secretly wishing to be a cartoonist, working at the New Yorker, developing the very disciplined work habits which allow him to produce a book a year. We hear him, now married to his second wife, reflect on the vicissitudes of life, fidelity, and marriage. He talks of family, and we see him play basketball with his three stepsons.
- Date
- 1978-07-28
- Subjects
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--New England; Gender identity--United States--Psychological aspects; Filmed literary readings; Authors' spouses--United States; Authors, American--20th century--Interviews; Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Appreciation; Updike, John; Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1954
- Rights
- Rights Note:,Rights:,Rights Credit:WGBH Educational Foundation,Rights Type:Web,Rights Coverage:,Rights Holder:WGBH Educational Foundation
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:28:15:26
- Credits
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Director2: Debarger, David
Interviewee2: Updike, John
Interviewer2: Altman, China
Producer: Eaton, Rebecca
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
Publisher: WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Identifier: cpb-aacip-dc695913d5a (unknown)
Format: Quicktime
Color: Color
Duration: 00:00:00
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WGBH Educational Foundation
Identifier: cpb-aacip-f2e9819e51c (unknown)
Format: video/mp4
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 00:28:15:26
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- Citations
- Chicago: “At Home; John Updike; 101,” 1978-07-28, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 24, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-tx3513v98g.
- MLA: “At Home; John Updike; 101.” 1978-07-28. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 24, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-tx3513v98g>.
- APA: At Home; John Updike; 101. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-tx3513v98g