# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-updike
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:10:37.632Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-updike"
name: "John Updike"
slug: "john-updike"
description: "John Hoyer Updike 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, 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."
tagline: "American novelist, poet (1932–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Updike%2C_author_at_PEN_Congress%2C_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1932-03-18"
deathDate: "2009-01-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump