Description: A study of the journalistic and academic reception of the writings of one of the great American writers of the late twentieth century.
Brief description: LAURENCE W. MAZZENO is President Emeritus of Alvernia University.
Review Quotes: [H]ighly competent. . . . Becoming John Updike is the most substantial review of Updike criticism to date, and it is likely that it will continue to prove interesting and useful reading for anyone working on Updike far into the future. . . . Although it is an impossible task to fully summarize the great accumulated mass of fifty years of Updike studies, Mazzeno succeeds in providing a sense of the arc of Updike's fate in the American intellectual culture.-- "THE AMERICAN STUDIES JOURNAL"