American author, John, b.1932

• United States author (born 1932)
• United Press ditch writer
• "The Witches of Eastwick" author
• "Gertrude and Claudius" novelist
• Angstrom creator
• “Champion Literary Phallocrat,” per Foster Wallace
• "Rabbit Is Rich" author John
• Two-time Pulitzer Prize for Fiction awardee
• "The Witches of Eastwick" novelist John

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Updike is a surname of Dutch origin, and is a spelling variant of the Dutch Opdijk , a topographical name meaning someone who lived on a dike. The surname has been present in North America since the settlement of New Netherland in the 17th century. Updike ...