| John Updike  AKA John Hoyer Updike
Born: 18-Mar-1932
Birthplace: Shillington, PA
Died: 27-Jan-2009
Location of death: Beverly Farms, MA
Cause of death: Cancer - Lung
Remains: Cremated (ashes scattered)
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Rabbit, Run Father: Wesley Russell Updike (high school science teacher)
Mother: Linda Grace Hoyer (homemaker)
Wife: Mary E. Pennington (m. 26-Jun-1953, div. 1977)
Daughter: Elizabeth
Son: David
Son: Michael
Daughter: Miranda
Wife: Martha Ruggles Bernhard (m. 1977)
High School: Shillington High School, Shillington, PA (1950)
University: BA English, Harvard University (1954, summa cum laude)
The New Yorker
Harvard Lampoon
4-H Club
Academy of Achievement (2004)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
International PEN
Phi Beta Kappa Society
National Book Award for Fiction 1964 for The Centaur
National Book Award for Fiction 1982 for Rabbit Is Rich
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1982 for Rabbit Is Rich
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1991 for Rabbit at Rest
American Book Award 1982 for Rabbit Is Rich
William Dean Howells Medal 1991 for Rabbit at Rest
National Humanities Medal 2003
PEN/Faulkner Award 2004 for The Early Stories
Guggenheim Fellowship
Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Award
National Medal of Arts 1989
Risk Factors: Psoriasis, Stuttering
Author of books:
The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures (1958, poetry)
The Poorhouse Fair (1959, novel)
Rabbit, Run (1960, novel)
Pigeon Feathers (1962, short stories)
The Centaur (1963, novel)
Of the Farm (1965, novel)
Couples (1968, novel)
Bech: A Book (1970, novel)
Rabbit Redux (1971, novel)
Museums & Women and Other Stories (1972, short stories)
Picked-Up Pieces (1975, essays)
Marry Me (1976, novel)
The Coup (1978, novel)
Rabbit Is Rich (1981, novel)
Bech Is Back (1982, novel)
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism (1983, essays)
The Witches of Eastwick (1984, novel)
Trust Me (1987, short stories)
S. (1988, novel)
Just Looking: Essays on Art (1989, essays)
Rabbit at Rest (1990, novel)
Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism (1991, essays)
Memories of the Ford Administration (1992, novel)
Brazil (1994, novel)
In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996, novel)
Toward the End of Time (1997, novel)
Bech at Bay (1998, novel)
Gertrude and Claudius (2000, novel)
Seek My Face (2002, novel)
Villages (2004, novel)
Terrorist (2006, novel)
The Widows of Eastwick (2008, novel)
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