John Updike
(b. 1932)

John Updike was born in Shilington, Pennsylvania. In 1954, he graduated from Harvard, where he won numerous writing honors, and then studied art in England for a year. From 1955 to 1957, he was a cartoonist and staff writer for The New Yorker, where many of his short stories appeared. Also a distinguished essayist and respected poet, Updike is well known for such novels as Rabbit Run (1960) and Rabbit Redux (1971).

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