# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wesley-russell-updike
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:31:58.372Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wesley-russell-updike"
name: "Wesley Russell Updike"
slug: "wesley-russell-updike"
description: "Wesley Russell Updike was an American educator, soldier, and father of author John Updike, husband of writer Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, and grandfather of David Updike. Wesley Updike served as a prominent model for many main characters his son's works, including as the central character in The Centaur (1963), which won the National Book Award for Fiction, and Updike's family history is broadly paralleled in In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996)."
tagline: "(1900-1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wesley_Updike_yearbook_photo_father_of_John_Updike.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1900-02-22"
deathDate: "1972-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           31.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.401764
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  46
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Updike"
    title: "Wesley Updike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A2%D9%BE%D8%AF%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "وسلی آپدایک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112845669"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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