John Updike

Born

March 18, 1932

Died

January 27, 2009 (aged 76)

Known as

poet, writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, art critic

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 20 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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