约翰·厄普代克(John Updike,1932—),美国作家,生于宾夕法尼亚州一个城市远郊,父亲是中学教员。1954年以优异成绩毕业于哈佛大学,随即去英国,在牛津拉斯金美术学院学习,一年后回国,进《纽约人》杂志社工作,两年后回宾夕法尼亚,成为职业作家。 John Updike (1932-), American writer, was born in a suburb of a city in Pennsylvania, his father is a secondary school teacher. He graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1954 and went to England to study at the Ruskin Academy of Fine Arts in Oxford. After returning to China one year later, he worked in the New Yorker magazine and returned to Pennsylvania two years later to become a professional writer.