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John Updike

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Novelist Realism American 20TH Century Literary Suburban

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American novelist (1932–2009) whose 'Rabbit' tetralogy, following protagonist Harry Angstrom from 1960 to 1990, earned him two Pulitzer Prizes and chronicled postwar American suburban life.

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