John Hoyer Updike dilahirkan di Shillington, Pennsylvania. Lulus dari Harvard College tahun 1954, lalu kuliah setahun di Oxford, England, khususnya di Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. Dari tahun 1955 hingga 1957 dia adalah anggota dari The New Yorker, majalah Amerika Serikat yang menerbitkan reportase, komentar, kritik, esai, fiksi, satire, kartun dan puisi. Setelah itu ia tinggal di Massachusetts untuk memfokuskan tulisannya sendiri. Sebanyak lebih dari 50 buku telah dihasilkannya, termasuk cerita pendek, puisi dan kritik. Novelnya telah memenangkan banyak penghargaan, di antaranya Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, dan the Howells Medal.

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Series
Harry Rabbit Angstrom
1. Rabbit Run (1960)
2. Rabbit Redux (1971)
3. Rabbit Is Rich (1981)
4. Rabbit at Rest (1990)
A Tetralogy (omnibus) (1995)

Henry Bech
Bech: A Book (1970)
Bech Is Back (1982)
The Complete Henry Bech (1993)
Bech At Bay: A Quasi-novel ( 1998 )
Basic Bech (1999)

Eastwick
1. The Witches of Eastwick (1984)
2. The Widows of Eastwick ( 2008 )

Novel
The Poorhouse Fair (1959)
The Centaur (1963)
Of the Farm (1965)
Couples (1968)
A Month of Sundays (1975)
Marry Me: A Romance (1977)
The Coup ( 1978 )
Your Lover Just Called (1980)
Roger’s Version (1986)
More Stately Mansions (1987)
S ( 1988 )
Memories of the Ford Administration (1992)
Brazil (1994)
In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996)
Toward the End of Time (1997)
The Women Who Got Away ( 1998 )
Gertrude and Claudius (2000)
Seek My Face (2002)
Villages (2004)
Terrorist (2006) klik sini

Collections
Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures ( 1958 )
Hoping for a Hoopoe (puisi) (1959)
The Same Door (1959)
Pigeon Feathers: And Other Stories (1962)
Telephone Poles (puisi) (1963)
Olinger Stories (1964)
Assorted Prose (1965)
The Music School (1966)
Midpoint and Other Poems (puisi) (1969)
Museums and Women: And Other Stories (1972)
Seventy Poems (puisi) (1972)
Six Poems (puisi) (1973)
Tossing and Turning (puisi) (1977)
An Oddly Lovely Day Alone (puisi) (1979)
Problems and Other Stories (1979)
Too Far to Go: The Maples Stories (1980)
The Other John Updike: Poems, Short Stories, Prose, Plays (1982)
Facing Nature (puisi) (1985)
The Afterlife: And Other Stories (1987)
Forty Stories (1987)
Trust Me: Short Stories (1987)
Selected Stories ( 1988 )
A Child’s Calendar (puisi) (1989)
In Memoriam, Felis Felis (puisi) (1989)
Collected Poems 1953-1993 (1993)
Friends from Philadelphia: And Other Stories (1995)
A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects (puisi) ( 1998 )
Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel (2000)
Americana: And Other Poems (puisi) (2001)
The Early Stories: 1953-1975 (2003)
Three Trips: The Short-story Writer As Tourist (2005)

Chapbooks
A and P (1986)
The Alligators (1993)

Plays
Buchanan Dying (1974)

Picture Books
The Magic Flute (1964)
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas (2006)

Series contributed to Best American Short Stories (menulis bareng Shannon Ravenel)
The Best American Short Stories 1984 (1984)

Nonfiksi
Pens and Needles (1970) (menulis bareng David Levine)
Picked Up Pieces (1975)
Talk from the Fifties (1979)
People One Knows: Interviews with Insufficiently Famous Americans (1980)
Hugging the Shore (1983)
Self Consciousness: Memoirs (1989)
Just Looking: Essays On Art (1989)
Odd Jobs: Essays And Criticism (1991)
Golf Dreams: Writings On Golf (1996)
More Matter: Essays And Criticism (1999)
On Literary Biography (1999)
Humor in Fiction (2000)
A Century of Arts and Letters (2002)
Still Looking (2007)
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism (2007)

Antologi yang memuat karya John Updike
Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories (1966)
First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors (1993)

Cerita pendek
A and P (1962)
Jesus on Honshu (1987)

Awards
National Book Award untuk Fiction Best Novel (1964) : The Centaur
National Book Award untuk Fiction Best Novel (1982) : Rabbit Is Rich
Pulitzer Prize untuk Fiction Best Novel (1982) : Rabbit Is Rich
Pulitzer Prize untuk Fiction Best Novel (1991) : Rabbit at Rest
PEN/Faulkner Award untuk fiction Best Collection (2004) : The Early Stories: 1953-1975

Buku tentang John Updike
U and I (1991) oleh Nicholson Baker