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 2,176,173 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). John Updike is the 900th most popular writer (down from 851st in 2019), the 1,053rd most popular biography from United States (down from 925th in 2019) and the 103rd 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 900 out of 5,755. Before him are Georg Brandes, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Rustichello da Pisa, Bertran de Born, and Publilius Syrus. After him are B. Traven, Jean de La Bruyère, Stefan George, Charles Maurras, John Grisham, and Daniel Goleman.
1842 - 1927
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 894
1757 - 1806
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 895
1868 - 1937
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 896
1290 - 1400
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 897
1140 - 1215
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 898
100 BC - 100 BC
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 899
1932 - 2009
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 900
1882 - 1969
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 901
1645 - 1696
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 902
1868 - 1933
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 903
1868 - 1952
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 904
1955 - Present
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 905
1946 - Present
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 906
Among people born in 1932, John Updike ranks 60. Before him are Zito, V. S. Naipaul, Nam June Paik, Harriet Andersson, Algirdas Brazauskas, and Melvin Schwartz. After him are Anatoliy Solovianenko, Nagisa Oshima, Peter Eisenman, Pier Angeli, Sheldon Lee Glashow, and David Scott. Among people deceased in 2009, John Updike ranks 31. Before him are Vitaly Ginzburg, Bobby Robson, Abdurrahman Wahid, Juan Almeida Bosque, Robert F. Furchgott, and Corazon Aquino. After him are Günther Rall, João Bernardo Vieira, Norman Borlaug, Raúl Alfonsín, Ephraim Katzir, and Ertuğrul Osman.
1932 - 2015
HPI: 62.71
Rank: 54
1932 - 2018
HPI: 62.43
Rank: 55
1932 - 2006
HPI: 62.16
Rank: 56
1932 - Present
HPI: 62.14
Rank: 57
1932 - 2010
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 58
1932 - 2006
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 59
1932 - 2009
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 60
1932 - 1999
HPI: 61.72
Rank: 61
1932 - 2013
HPI: 61.70
Rank: 62
1932 - Present
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 63
1932 - 1971
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 64
1932 - Present
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 65
1932 - Present
HPI: 61.44
Rank: 66
1916 - 2009
HPI: 62.21
Rank: 25
1933 - 2009
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 26
1940 - 2009
HPI: 62.06
Rank: 27
1927 - 2009
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 28
1916 - 2009
HPI: 61.91
Rank: 29
1933 - 2009
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 30
1932 - 2009
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 31
1918 - 2009
HPI: 61.61
Rank: 32
1939 - 2009
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 33
1914 - 2009
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 34
1927 - 2009
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 35
1916 - 2009
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 36
1912 - 2009
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 37
Among people born in United States, John Updike ranks 1,053 out of 18,182. Before him are Elisha Otis (1811), Michelle Obama (1964), Jerome Karle (1918), Harvey Milk (1930), Burt Young (1940), and Ellen DeGeneres (1958). After him are Diane Arbus (1923), Dennis Rodman (1961), Powers Boothe (1948), John Grisham (1955), Daniel Goleman (1946), and Noah Gordon (1926).
1811 - 1861
HPI: 61.83
Rank: 1,047
1964 - Present
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 1,048
1918 - 2013
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 1,049
1930 - 1978
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 1,050
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 1,051
1958 - Present
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 1,052
1932 - 2009
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 1,053
1923 - 1971
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 1,054
1961 - Present
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 1,055
1948 - 2017
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 1,056
1955 - Present
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 1,057
1946 - Present
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 1,058
1926 - 2021
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 1,059
Among writers born in United States, John Updike ranks 103. Before him are Thomas Pynchon (1937), Sam Shepard (1943), L. Frank Baum (1856), Walter Lippmann (1889), Jean Webster (1876), and Clifford D. Simak (1904). After him are John Grisham (1955), Daniel Goleman (1946), Noah Gordon (1926), James Jones (1921), Roger Zelazny (1937), and Marshall Rosenberg (1934).
1937 - Present
HPI: 62.30
Rank: 97
1943 - 2017
HPI: 62.29
Rank: 98
1856 - 1919
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 99
1889 - 1974
HPI: 62.15
Rank: 100
1876 - 1916
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 101
1904 - 1988
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 102
1932 - 2009
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 103
1955 - Present
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 104
1946 - Present
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 105
1926 - 2021
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 106
1921 - 1977
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 107
1937 - 1995
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 108
1934 - 2015
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 109