# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-entwistle-pennington
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:25:29.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-entwistle-pennington"
name: "Mary Entwistle Pennington"
slug: "mary-entwistle-pennington"
description: "Mary Pennington (Updike) Weatherall was a visual artist and the first wife of John Updike. Many of Updike's early characters were modeled after her, particularly in his short stories about the Maple family and his novel Couples. Weatherall was the mother of artist Elizabeth Updike Cobblah and writer David Updike, and the maternal aunt of poet Molly Fisk."
tagline: "American artist (1930-2018)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1930-01-26"
deathDate: "2018-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.86
  momentum:             5.436893203883495
  historical:           1.539057333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  39
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pennington_(Updike)_Weatherall"
    title: "Mary Pennington (Updike) Weatherall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108674983"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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