John Updike Biography

John Updike biography

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NAME: John Updike
OCCUPATION: Author
BIRTH DATE: March 18, 1932
DEATH DATE: January 27, 2009
EDUCATION: Harvard University

PLACE OF BIRTH: Shillington, Pennsylvania
PLACE OF DEATH: Danvers, Massachusetts

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Writer John Updike's works are known for their subtle depiction of American middle-class life. His novel Rabbit at Rest, one of series, won the Pulitzer prize.

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John Updike was born March 18, 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. His famous “Rabbit” series Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981, Pulitzer Prize), and Rabbit at Rest (1990, Pulitzer Prize)—follows a very ordinary American man through the decades of the later 20th century; Rabbit Remembered (2001) centers on characters from the earlier books in the wake of Rabbit's death.