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John Updike

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John Updike

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Also known as John Hoyer Updike

American novelist, poet (1932–2009)

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John Updike was an American novelist and poet who lived from 1932 to 2009 and became one of the most celebrated literary figures of the twentieth century. His work is significant because he wrote extensively about American life and culture, earning major literary awards and shaping how literature portrayed everyday American experiences during his era.

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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and the novella "Rabbit Remembered") which chronicled the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young…

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  • Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker — Self2001
  • Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey — Self1991
  • The Simpsons — John Updike (voice)1989
  • Apostrophes — Self1975

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Instance of
human
Given name
John
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Reading
Place of death
Danvers
Occupation
journalist
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
Anglicanism
Notable work
The Witches of Eastwick
Movement
modernist literature
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John Updike, author at PEN Congress, cropped.jpg
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member of
PEN America
influenced by
James Thurber
Commons category
John Updike
date of birth
1932-03-18
date of death
2009-01-27
manner of death
natural causes
cause of death
lung cancer
nominated for
International Booker Prize
name in native language
John Updike
archives at
New York Public Library Main Branch
start of work period
1959-00-00
contributed to creative work
The New Yorker
writing language
English language
medical condition
stuttering
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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.

Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; and the novella Rabbit Remembered), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death. Both Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990) were awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

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