John Updike

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American novelist, poet (1932-2009)

United States WritersLived 1932 to 2009 · aged 76

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John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

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Updike's boyhood home in Shillington, Pennsylvania

Updike in 1989

Updike delivering the 2008 Jefferson Lecture

Awards 28

2008Jefferson Lecture

2006Rea Award for the Short Story

2005Carl Sandburg Literary Award

2004PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

2003National Humanities Medal

1998National Book Award

1997Ambassador Book Award

1995Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎

1995William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

1994Prix Laure Bataillon

1993Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service

1992honorary doctor of Harvard University

1991Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

1990National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

1990Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary Award

1989National Medal of Arts

1988PEN/Malamud Award

1987St. Louis Literary Award

1987Helmerich Award

1983National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism

1982Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

1982National Book Award for Fiction

1981National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

1966O. Henry Award

1964National Book Award for Fiction

1954Bowdoin prize

Golden Rose Award

Guggenheim Fellowship

In their orbit 6

SpouseMary Entwistle Pennington

SpouseMartha Ruggles Bernhard

FatherWesley Russell Updike

MotherLinda Grace Hoyer

ChildElizabeth Updike Cobblah

ChildDavid Updike

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John Cameron MitchellAlso in The Roommate (1984)

About this person

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.

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