Dzhon Apdajk (1932 - 2009) - prozaik, pojet, jesseist, kritik i dramaturg, priznannyj klassik literatury SShA. V nastoyashhem issledovanii vyyavleny predposylki obrashheniya Apdajka k teme terrorizma i detal'no proanalizirovan (s obnaruzheniem tradicionnyh dlya pisatelya i specificheskih chert) ves' korpus aktual'nyh v jetom aspekte proizvedenij: romany "Perevorot" (The Coup, 1978) i "Terrorist" (Terrorist, 2006), jesse "11 sentyabrya 2001 goda" (September 11, 2001) i rasskaz "Mnogoobrazie religioznogo opyta" (Varieties of Religious Experience, 2002).