John Updike, who has died aged 76, was interviewed last October by the Daily Telegraph's Mick Brown. In it, the author explores the subject of celebrity, recalls his first meeting with Barack Obama, ...

Updike preferred to avoid the media, but he agreed to this interview with Eleanor Wachtel in Toronto in 1996. At the time of the interview, he'd recently published a novel called In the Beauty of the ...

The first time John Updike met the late Norman Mailer was in 1964, after a literary function in New York The first time John Updike met the late Norman Mailer was in 1964, after a literary function in ...