John Updike
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.
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| Full name at birth | John Hoyer Updike
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| Claim to fame | The Carpentered Hen
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| Date of birth | 18 March 1932
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| Place of birth | Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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| Date of death | 27 January 2009
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| Age | 76 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Danvers, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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| Cause of death | Lung Cancer
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| Occupation | Novelist, Short Story Writer, Literary Critic
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![John Updike - Time Magazine [United States] (18 October 1982)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/e/m/emdy2hw5oom3wo.jpg?skj2io4l)
![John Updike - Time Magazine [United States] (26 April 1968)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/e/m/em5jg062m9c49e6j.jpg?skj2io4l)
John Updike is known for his role in the short Ashen Lit Box Set (2018) as grateful acknowledgment.
He is also known for his role in the documentary Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015) as Self.
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