# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martha-ruggles-bernhard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:32:25.923Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martha-ruggles-bernhard"
name: "Martha Ruggles Bernhard"
slug: "martha-ruggles-bernhard"
description: "Martha Franc Ruggles Bernhard Updike was an American social worker and the widow of author John Updike. She served as a model for several of his fictional characters, including in his story \"A Constellation of Events\", which was loosely based on the initiation of their relationship."
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1937-10-18"
deathDate: "2023-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.49
  momentum:             2.840336134453782
  historical:           1.537977333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  29
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Ruggles_Bernhard_Updike"
    title: "Martha Ruggles Bernhard Updike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108674995"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations