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John Updike

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Jan 27, 2009
Zodiac
Pisces
Born in
Reading PA
About
Acclaimed American novelist, short story writer, poet, and critic who wrote the acclaimed Rabbit Angstrom series, which consists of "Rabbit, Run," "Rabbit Redux," "Rabbit Is Rich," and "Rabbit At Rest." He was the recipient of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Family
He was married to Mary Pennington for over twenty years. His second marriage, to Martha Ruggles Bernhard, lasted more than thirty years. He had two sons, David and Michael, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Miranda.

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