Editing John Updike (section)

==Awards==
<ref>All awards listed at [http://userpages.prexar.com/joyerkes/Item8.html The Centaurian] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214055417/http://userpages.prexar.com/joyerkes/Item8.html |date=February 14, 2009 }} Updike homepage, "Awards, Prizes, and Honors", March 17, 2009</ref>
* 1959 [[Guggenheim Fellow]]
* 1959 [[National Institute of Arts and Letters]] Rosenthal Award
* 1964 [[National Book Award for Fiction]]<ref name=nba1964>
[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1964 "National Book Awards – 1964"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 11, 2012. (With acceptance speech by Updike and essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)</ref>
* 1965 [[Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger]]
* 1966 [[O. Henry Prize]]
* 1970 [[Honorary degree|Honorary]] [[Doctor of Literature]] from [[Emerson College]]
* 1981 [[National Book Critics]] Circle Award for Fiction
* 1981 Edward MacDowell Medal
* 1982 [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]
* 1982 [[National Book Award for Fiction]] (hardcover)<ref name=nba1982>
[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1982 "National Book Awards – 1982"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 11, 2012. (With essays by Amity Gaige and Nancy Werlin from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)</ref><ref group=lower-alpha>
This was the award for hardcover Fiction. <br />From 1980 to 1983 in [[National Book Award#History|National Book Award history]] there were dual awards for hardcover and paperback books in many categories. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints, including the 1982 Fiction.</ref>
* 1982 [[Union League Club]] Abraham Lincoln Award
* 1983 [[National Book Critics Circle]] Award for Criticism
* 1984 [[National Arts Club]] Medal of Honor
* 1987 [[St. Louis Literary Award]] from the [[Saint Louis University]] Library Associates<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html |title=Website of St. Louis Literary Award |access-date=July 25, 2016 |archive-date=August 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823003924/http://www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://lib.slu.edu/about/associates/literary-award |title=Recipients of the Saint Louis Literary Award |author=Saint Louis University Library Associates |access-date=July 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731082313/http://lib.slu.edu/about/associates/literary-award |archive-date=July 31, 2016 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* 1987 [[Ambassador Book Award]]
* 1987 [[Helmerich Award|Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award]]
* 1988 [[PEN/Malamud Award]]
* 1989 [[National Medal of Arts]]
* 1990 [[National Book Critics Circle]] Award for Fiction
* 1991 [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]
* 1991 [[O. Henry Prize]]
* 1992 Honorary [[Doctor of Letters]] from [[Harvard University]]
* 1995 [[William Dean Howells Medal]]
* 1995 Commandeur de [[l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]]
* 1997 [[Ambassador Book Award]]
* 1998 [[Arts First|Harvard Arts Medal]]<ref>{{cite web |title=History of the Harvard Arts Medal |url=https://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/harvard-arts-medal |publisher=Harvard University Office for the Arts |access-date=23 February 2019}}</ref>
* 1998 [[National Book Award#Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters|Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters]] from the National Book Foundation<ref name=medal>
[http://www.nationalbook.org/amerletters.html "Distinguished Contribution to American Letters"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 11, 2012. (With acceptance speech by Updike and introduction by Paul LeClerc.)</ref>
* 2002 Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature  
* 2003 [[National Humanities Medal]]
* 2004 [[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction]]
*  2004 Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]]<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url= https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=2004 |title=2004 Summit Highlights Photo | url= https://achievement.org/summit/2004/|quote= Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, essayist, and poet John Updike addresses Academy delegates and members.}}</ref>
* 2005 [[Man Booker International Prize]] nominee
* 2006 [[Rea Award for the Short Story]]
* 2007 [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] [[American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals|Gold Medal for Fiction]]
* 2008 [[Jefferson Lecture]]