1932 - 2009
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in 1954. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Updike has received more than 1,964,814 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). John Updike is the 851st most popular writer (down from 814th in 2019), the 926th most popular biography from United States (down from 876th in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Writer.
John Updike is most famous for his novels and short stories that explore the lives of the American middle class.
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Among writers, John Updike ranks 851 out of 5,794. Before him are Sidonius Apollinaris, André Bazin, Aelius Donatus, James Jones, Rubén Darío, and Issei Sagawa. After him are Virginia Satir, Ingeborg Bachmann, Quintus Tullius Cicero, Nikolay Karamzin, Ibn Hawqal, and Etty Hillesum.
430 - 489
HPI: 71.25
Rank: 845
1918 - 1958
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 846
320 - 380
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 847
1921 - 1977
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 848
1867 - 1916
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 849
1949 - Present
HPI: 71.20
Rank: 850
1932 - 2009
HPI: 71.18
Rank: 851
1916 - 1988
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 852
1926 - 1973
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 853
102 BC - 43 BC
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 854
1766 - 1826
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 855
943 - 988
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 856
1914 - 1943
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 857
Among people born in 1932, John Updike ranks 56. Before him are Pat Morita, Stéphane Audran, Vladimir Ivashko, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Harriet Andersson, and Melvin Schwartz. After him are V. S. Naipaul, Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner, Anatoliy Solovianenko, Peter Eisenman, Robert Mundell, and Khaled al-Asaad. Among people deceased in 2009, John Updike ranks 27. Before him are Omar Bongo, Bobby Robson, Abdurrahman Wahid, Milorad Pavić, Vitaly Ginzburg, and Karl Malden. After him are Sydney Chaplin, Günther Rall, Jean Dausset, João Bernardo Vieira, Patrick McGoohan, and Raúl Alfonsín.
1932 - 2005
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 50
1932 - 2018
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 51
1932 - 1994
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 52
1932 - Present
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 53
1932 - Present
HPI: 71.28
Rank: 54
1932 - 2006
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 55
1932 - 2009
HPI: 71.18
Rank: 56
1932 - 2018
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 57
1932 - Present
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 58
1932 - 1999
HPI: 70.87
Rank: 59
1932 - Present
HPI: 70.67
Rank: 60
1932 - Present
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 61
1932 - 2015
HPI: 70.36
Rank: 62
1935 - 2009
HPI: 72.12
Rank: 21
1933 - 2009
HPI: 71.66
Rank: 22
1940 - 2009
HPI: 71.52
Rank: 23
1929 - 2009
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 24
1916 - 2009
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 25
1912 - 2009
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 26
1932 - 2009
HPI: 71.18
Rank: 27
1926 - 2009
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 28
1918 - 2009
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 29
1916 - 2009
HPI: 70.51
Rank: 30
1939 - 2009
HPI: 70.43
Rank: 31
1928 - 2009
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 32
1927 - 2009
HPI: 70.04
Rank: 33
Among people born in United States, John Updike ranks 926 out of 15,968. Before him are Karl Malden (1912), Stan Getz (1927), Louise Fletcher (1934), Lance Henriksen (1940), Barbara Stanwyck (1907), and D. W. Griffith (1875). After him are Larry Bird (1956), Jerry Goldsmith (1929), Virginia Satir (1916), John Lithgow (1945), Richard E. Byrd (1888), and Robert Lucas Jr. (1937).
1912 - 2009
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 920
1927 - 1991
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 921
1934 - Present
HPI: 71.20
Rank: 922
1940 - Present
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 923
1907 - 1990
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 924
1875 - 1948
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 925
1932 - 2009
HPI: 71.18
Rank: 926
1956 - Present
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 927
1929 - 2004
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 928
1916 - 1988
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 929
1945 - Present
HPI: 71.16
Rank: 930
1888 - 1957
HPI: 71.16
Rank: 931
1937 - Present
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 932
Among writers born in United States, John Updike ranks 99. Before him are Anne Rice (1941), Daniel Keyes (1927), Thomas Pynchon (1937), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Solomon Northup (1808), and James Jones (1921). After him are Virginia Satir (1916), Richard Matheson (1926), Walter Lippmann (1889), Jean Webster (1876), H. L. Mencken (1880), and Irving Stone (1903).
1941 - Present
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 93
1927 - 2014
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 94
1937 - Present
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 95
1807 - 1882
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 96
1808 - 1863
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 97
1921 - 1977
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 98
1932 - 2009
HPI: 71.18
Rank: 99
1916 - 1988
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 100
1926 - 2013
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 101
1889 - 1974
HPI: 70.98
Rank: 102
1876 - 1916
HPI: 70.86
Rank: 103
1880 - 1956
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 104
1903 - 1989
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 105