《美丽百合》是厄普代克第17部长篇小说,出版于1996年。厄普代克研究专著《重访约翰·厄普代克》的作者,美国辛辛那提大学教授斯基夫把《美丽百合》归于厄普代克作品的历史小说。同在这一类的小说,按照斯基夫的看法,还有剧本《弥留中的布坎南》(1974)和小说《福特时代的回忆》(1992)。实际上,写于不同时代的《兔子四部曲》也可以列入历史类小说。“兔子”系列讲述了战后美国社会从二十世纪五十年代末到九十年代初几十年间的发展变迁故事,而在 “Beautiful Lily” is Updike’s 17th novel, published in 1996. Updike’s research monograph “Revisiting John Updike,” the author of the University of Cincinnati Schiff, “beautiful lily” attributed to Updike’s historical novels. In the same novels of this genre, there are scripts such as Buchanan in Dying (1974) and Fiction in Fordian Time (1992). In fact, written in different periods of the “Bunny Tracks” can also be included in historical novels. “Rabbit ” series tells the story of post-war American society from the late nineteen fifties to the early nineties early decades of development and changes in the story,