What is John Updike?
{{Infobox writer | image = John Updike, author at PEN Congress, cropped.jpg | caption = Updike in 1986 | birth_name = John Hoyer Updike | birth_date = {{birth date |1932|03|18}} | birth_place = [[Reading, Pennsylvania]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age |2009|01|27|1932|03|18}} | death_place = [[Danvers, Massachusetts]], U.S. | occupation = {{flatlist| * Novelist * short-story writer * poet * [[literary critic]] * artist}} | genre = [[Literary realism]] | notableworks = Rabbit Angstrom novels: ''[[Rabbit, Run]]'' (1960)<br />''[[Rabbit Redux]]'' (1971)<br />''[[Rabbit is Rich]]'' (1981)<br /> ''[[Rabbit at Rest]]'' (1990)<br />[[Henry Bech]] stories<br />''[[The Witches of Eastwick]]'' | signature = John Updike signature.svg | module = {{Listen | embed =yes |filename = John_updike_bbc_radio4_front_row_31_10_2008_b00f3b6t.flac |title = John Updike's voice |type = speech |description = from the BBC program ''[[Front Row (radio programme)|Front Row]]'', October 31, 2008.<ref>{{cite episode|title=John Updike | series=Front Row|series-link = Front Row (radio programme)| url = http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f3b6t |station = [[BBC Radio 4]]|date=October 31, 2008 | access-date =January 18, 2014}}</ref>}} | education = [[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Ruskin School of Art]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] |spouses = {{ubl|{{marriage|[[Mary Entwistle Pennington]]|1953|1974|end=div}}|{{marriage|[[Martha Ruggles Bernhard]]|1977<!--Omission per template instructions-->}}}} }} '''John Hoyer Updike''' (March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009) was an [[Americans|American]] author of works including ''Rabbit, Run'' and ''Couples''. He was born in [[Reading, Pennsylvania]]. He died of [[lung cancer]] in [[Danvers, Massachusetts]] in January 2009. == Related pages == *[[List of poets from North America]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{us-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Updike, John}} [[Category:1932 births]] [