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John Updike
AuthorBooks · Second hand1932-2009
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 twenty 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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About John Updike
Birth
1932
Death
2009
First book
1959
Years writing
67
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 twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.
John Updike was an extremely prolific author who published over a thousand works throughout his career.
He is one of only four writers in history to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.
His iconic series about Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom portrays the life of an ordinary American citizen over several decades.
He began his long and fruitful professional relationship with The New Yorker magazine in 1954, where he published hundreds of pieces.
In addition to being a novelist, he excelled as a poet, art critic, essayist, and author of children's literature.
