Timeline John Updike

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• 1932 John Updike born in Reading, Pennsylvania John Hoyer Updike is born in Reading and grows up in nearby Shillington, the model for his fictional Olinger.
• 1950 Updike enters Harvard John Updike goes to Harvard on a scholarship and draws cartoons for the Harvard Lampoon.
• 1953 Updike marries Mary Pennington John Updike marries Mary Entwistle Pennington, a student at Radcliffe.
• 1954 Updike's first story in The New Yorker John Updike graduates summa cum laude and sells his first story to The New Yorker.
• 1955 Updike joins The New Yorker John Updike writes Talk of the Town pieces as a staff writer at The New Yorker for two years.
• 1957 Updike moves to Ipswich John Updike leaves New York for Ipswich, Massachusetts, to write full time.
• 1958 Updike publishes The Carpentered Hen John Updike's first book, a collection of light verse, appears.
• 1959 Updike publishes The Poorhouse Fair John Updike's first novel, set in a home for the elderly, is published.
• 1960 Updike publishes Rabbit, Run John Updike introduces Harry Rabbit Angstrom, a former basketball star trapped in small-town Pennsylvania.
• 1963 Updike publishes The Centaur John Updike's novel about his schoolteacher father wins the National Book Award.
• 1968 Updike publishes Couples John Updike's novel of suburban adultery becomes a bestseller and puts him on the cover of Time.
• 1971 Updike publishes Rabbit Redux John Updike's second Rabbit novel moves Harry into the turbulent late 1960s.
• 1977 Updike marries Martha Bernhard After his divorce, John Updike marries Martha Ruggles Bernhard and moves to Georgetown, Massachusetts.
• 1981 Updike publishes Rabbit Is Rich The third Rabbit novel wins the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
• 1984 Updike publishes The Witches of Eastwick John Updike's comic novel of three witches in Rhode Island is filmed in 1987 with Jack Nicholson.
• 1990 Updike publishes Rabbit at Rest The last Rabbit novel wins John Updike his second Pulitzer Prize.
• 2003 Updike receives the National Humanities Medal John Updike is awarded the National Humanities Medal at the White House.
• 2009 John Updike dies in Massachusetts John Updike dies of lung cancer at a hospice in Danvers, Massachusetts, aged 76.