- Previously, Updike had written a short story entitled "Ace In The Hole", and to a lesser extent a poem, "Ex-Basketball Player", with similar themes to Rabbit Run.[13]
- In his senior year at Harvard, Updike submitted to his writing instructor "Flick", an early version of "Ace in the Hole". Updike later sent "Flick" to The New Yorker where it was rejected.[14]
- Updike said that he wrote Rabbit, Run in response to Jack Kerouac's On the Road, and tried to depict "what happens when a young American family man goes on the road – the people left behind get hurt."[13]
- The 2002 American drama film 8 Mile draws on Rabbit, Run. Its screenplay, by Scott Silver, opens with a quote from the novel: "If you have the guts to be yourself...other people'll pay your price."[15] The protagonist, played by the rapper Eminem, is nicknamed B-Rabbit. The soundtrack of the film features a song titled "Rabbit Run".
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