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John Updike is the author of the "Rabbit" novels, which focus on the life of ex-high school basketball star, and by now "one of America’s most famous literary characters," Harry Angstrom. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Award, The American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Howell's Medal for his fiction. Many of Updike's short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, and he co-edited Best American Short Stories of the Century. The Early Stories is a collection of 103 of his stories published from 1953 to 1975.