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Also Known As	John Hoyer Updike
Born	March 18, 1932 • Reading • Pennsylvania
Died	January 27, 2009 (aged 76) • Danvers • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize • National Book Award • PEN/Faulkner Award (2004) • O. Henry Award (1991) • O. Henry Award (1966)
Notable Works	“Couples” • “Endpoint, and Other Poems” • “Gertrude and Claudius” • “Hugging the Shore” • “In the Beauty of the Lilies” • “Memories of the Ford Administration: A Novel” • “Odd Jobs” • “Pigeon Feathers” • “Rabbit Is Rich” • “Rabbit Redux” • “Rabbit Remembered” • “Rabbit, Run” • “Rabbit at Rest” • “Terrorist” • “The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures” • “The Widows of Eastwick” • “The Witches of Eastwick”