John Updike

John Updike's writing has won him all of America's major literary prizes: two Pulitzer Prizes, the American Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Awards for both fiction and criticism. He is best known for his Rabbit series, a series that has been called a chronicle of life in middle America over the past 40 years.

Updike began publishing in 1959 and has since published more than 40 volumes, including 17 novels, 11 collections of short stories, and six volumes of poetry. In 1955 he joined the staff of The New Yorker, where he wrote for two years.

Updike was born March 18, 1932 and attended both Harvard University and Oxford.

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