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  1. John Updike (born March 18, 1932, Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died January 27, 2009, Danvers, Massachusetts) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and poetry, known for his careful craftsmanship and realistic but subtle depiction of “American, Protestant, small-town, middle-class” life. Updike grew up in Shillington ...

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    John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) 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 (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as ...

  3. John Hoyer Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. His father, Wesley, was a high school mathematics teacher, the model for several sympathetic father figures in Updike's early works. Because Updike's mother, Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, had literary dreams of her own, books were a large part of the boy's early life.

  4. Dec 29, 2019 · Fast Facts: John Updike. Full Name: John Hoyer Updike. Known For: Pulitzer Prize winning American writer whose fiction explored the tensions of the American middle class, sexuality, and religion. Born: March 18, 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Parents: Wesley Russell Updike, Linda Updike (née Hoyer) Died: January 27, 2009 in Danvers, Massachusetts.

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  5. May 21, 2018 · Updike, John Hoyer (1932– ) US writer. Updike is best known for his lyrical chronicles of Rabbit Angstrom, whose relationship crises often reflect contemporary social pressures. The tetralogy began with Rabbit Run (1960) and Rabbit Redux (1971). Rabbit is Rich (1981) won a Pulitzer Prize. Rabbit at Rest (1990) completed the series.

  6. Jan 28, 2009 · John Hoyer Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Reading, Pa., and grew up in the nearby town of Shillington. He was the only child of Wesley Russell Updike, a junior high school math teacher of ...

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  8. UPDIKE, John Hoyer (b. 18 March 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania), novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and critic who first came to literary prominence in the 1960s with such novels as Rabbit, Run and Couples. Updike, of Dutch and German descent, is the only child of Wesley Russell and Linda Grace (Hoyer) Updike.

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