John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932.
John Updike died in January 2009..
In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal.
From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker .
He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932