Author
John Updike
March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009 · United States
Poet, Writer, Novelist, Essayist, Playwright, Art critic, Author, Literary critic, Science fiction writer, Children's writer, Journalist
Titles on list
18
Total weeks
200
Peak rank
#1
Weeks at #1
1
Biography
- Born
- March 18, 1932 · Reading
- Died
- January 27, 2009 · Danvers
- Nationality
- United States
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Education
- Harvard University, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Governor Mifflin Senior High School, Harvard College
Awards & Honours
- 1954Bowdoin prize
- 1964National Book Award for Fiction
- 1966O. Henry Award
- 1981National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
- 1982Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- 1982National Book Award for Fiction
- 1983National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
- 1987St. Louis Literary Award
- 1987Helmerich Award
- 1988PEN/Malamud Award
- 1989National Medal of Arts
- 1990National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
- 1990Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary Award
- 1991Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- 1992honorary doctor of Harvard University
- 1993Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service
- 1994Prix Laure Bataillon
- 1995Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- 1995William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1997Ambassador Book Award
- 1998National Book Award
- 2003National Humanities Medal
- 2004PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- 2005Carl Sandburg Literary Award
- 2006Rea Award for the Short Story
- 2008Jefferson Lecture
- Golden Rose Award
- Guggenheim Fellowship
On the Bestseller Lists
18 titles
TERRORIST
#5 · 4 wks
IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES
#9 · 5 wks
RABBIT AT REST
#8 · 7 wks
S.
#10 · 6 wks
ROGER'S VERSION
#4 · 15 wks
THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK
#5 · 12 wks
RABBIT IS RICH
#4 · 23 wks
THE COUP
#4 · 17 wks
MARRY ME
#7 · 6 wks
A MONTH OF SUNDAYS
#5 · 15 wks
MUSEUMS AND WOMEN
#10 · 1 wk
RABBIT REDUX
#4 · 16 wks
BECH: A BOOK
#7 · 8 wks
COUPLES
#1 · 36 wks
THE CENTAUR
#8 · 10 wks
PIGEON FEATHERS
#13 · 7 wks
RABBIT, RUN
#14 · 10 wks
THE POORHOUSE FAIR
#14 · 2 wks
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review. Biographical data from Wikipedia/Wikidata (CC0).