[3][4][5] In 1988, he published a collection of short stories, Out on the Marsh, and he later published a four-piece set of young-adult books, A Winter Journey, An Autumn Tale, A Spring Story, and The Sounds of Summer.
[6] In 2006, he published a novel, Ivy's Turn, about interracial relationships in the 1990s and the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
[7] In addition to his pieces in The New Yorker, Updike has published short stories in Epiphany, Sargasso, Harper's, and The New York Times Magazine.
He provided the photographs for his father's children's book, A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects.
[7] His wife, Wambui, is a native of Kenya, and they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.