“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, a peculiar secret self-consciousness appears.”

About John Updike

Author • American

John Hoyer Updike was an acclaimed American novelist, poet, short-story writer, and literary critic. He is best known for his 'Rabbit' series of novels, which chronicle the life of the middle-class everyman Harry...