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John Updike
Dead
Born: 3/18/1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USADied: 1/27/2009
Age: 76
Cause of death: lung cancer
Full name: John Hoyer Updike
Noted For: novelist; wrote Rabbit Run (1960), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit At Rest (1990). Won the Pulitzer Prize for Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit At Rest.
