John Updike

John Updike
Updike in 1986
Born	John Hoyer Updike (1932-03-18)March 18, 1932 Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	January 27, 2009(2009-01-27) (aged 76) Danvers, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist short-story writer poet literary critic artist
Education	Harvard University (BA) Ruskin School of Art, Oxford
Genre	Literary realism
Notable works	Rabbit Angstrom novels: Rabbit, Run (1960) Rabbit Redux (1971) Rabbit is Rich (1981) Rabbit at Rest (1990) Henry Bech stories The Witches of Eastwick
Spouses	Mary Entwistle Pennington ​ ​ (m. 1953; div. 1974)​ Martha Ruggles Bernhard ​ ​ (m. 1977)​
Signature
John Updike's voice from the BBC program Front Row, October 31, 2008.[1]

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009) was an American author of works including Rabbit, Run and Couples. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He died of lung cancer in Danvers, Massachusetts in January 2009.

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