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John Updike

1932 - 2009

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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) 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 (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), 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. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Updike is the 961st most popular writer (up from 1,131st in 2019), the 1,338th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,335th in 2019) and the 105th most popular American Writer.

John Updike is most famous for his novels and short stories that explore the lives of the American middle class.

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Among writers, John Updike ranks 961 out of 7,302. Before him are Ernesto Sabato, Hrotsvitha, Horatio Alger, Peter Weiss, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and Silius Italicus. After him are Panait Istrati, Juliette Récamier, John Fante, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gaius Asinius Pollio, and Frank Wedekind.

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Among people born in 1932, John Updike ranks 69. Before him are Stéphane Audran, Oliver E. Williamson, Robert Vaughn, Tomohiko Ikoma, Donald Rumsfeld, and Francis Lai. After him are Renato Martino, Louis Malle, Alfredo Ferrari, Nam June Paik, Walter Gilbert, and Vitold Fokin. Among people deceased in 2009, John Updike ranks 37. Before him are Ted Kennedy, Takashi Takabayashi, Maurice Druon, Tomohiko Ikoma, Bobby Robson, and Jennifer Jones. After him are Gaafar Nimeiry, Leszek Kołakowski, Norman Borlaug, Natasha Richardson, Ralf Dahrendorf, and Tavo Burat.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Updike ranks 1,338 out of 20,380. Before him are Jon Bon Jovi (1962), William Daniel Phillips (1948), Carl Spaatz (1891), Mr. T (1952), Willie Nelson (1933), and Mark David Chapman (1955). After him are Mary Jackson (1921), Ray Kurzweil (1948), Usher (1978), John Fante (1909), Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760), and William Barr (1950).

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Among writers born in United States, John Updike ranks 105. Before him are Joseph Campbell (1904), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), Daniel Keyes (1927), Zelda Fitzgerald (1900), Virginia Satir (1916), and Horatio Alger (1832). After him are John Fante (1909), Cormac McCarthy (1933), Ambrose Bierce (1842), Raymond Carver (1938), Sherwood Anderson (1876), and Thomas Wolfe (1900).

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