John Updike

John Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1932, the only child of a mathematics teacher, and grew up in Shillington. A Harvard graduate in 1954, he studied drawing at Oxford, then joined The New Yorker in 1955: he remained on its staff for only two years, but the magazine published his writing until his death. He produced more than sixty books, novels, stories, poems and criticism, writing at least three pages a day, except on Sundays. A two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he died in Danvers, Massachusetts, in 2009.

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• NovelRabbit, RunJohn Updike · 1960Literature