John Updike

John Updike (1932–2009) was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, a small town that would furnish the landscape of his greatest fiction. A precocious talent, he studied English at Harvard, spent a year at the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, and joined the staff of The New Yorker at twenty-two. He left New York for Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1957, where he would spend decades producing novels, stories, poems, and criticism at a prodigious rate. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Rabbit, Run.