John Updike
(1932 - 2009)
“My subject,” John Updike once said, “is the American Protestant small-town middle class.” As a child he wanted to be a cartoonist for either Walt Disney or The New Yorker, the magazine with which he began his prolific affiliation as a writer in 1955. Over the course of the next fifty-four years, Updike won two Pulitzer Prizes and published twenty-three novels.