John Updike
John Updike is a novelist that was born and raised in Pennsylvania. Sadly the man passed away at the age of 76 but before he went he did many great things to bring to the public forefront the plight of psoriasis. When Updike was a kid he was asked what he wanted to do with his life. He immediately ruled out anything in public, due to the fear of his psoriasis. It was this fear that led him to become a Pulitzer Prize winning author. He included many references to psoriasis in the subtext of his novels and even made public the desire for change in the treatment of psoriasis medication. As a writer he made his hay with his realist forms of prose, brought on perhaps by his own realistic world view.
John Updike psoriasis
Art Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel is one of the fathers of folk rack. As one part of the Grammy Award winning due, Simon & Garfunkel, Art has won the world over with his smooth voice and beautiful lyrics. He’s won several Grammy Awards as well as been nominated for a Golden Globe for his work in the film Carnal Knowledge which released in 1971. Garfunkel has been suffering from the debilitating skin condition for almost as long as he has been making music, but he has found his own ways to deal with it. Garfunkel praises the salty water of the Dead Sea as a way to sooth and treat the condition. He first flew over for a trip back in 1998 and continues to do so to this day. Garfunkel is 71 years old and looking as good as ever, so we can’t argue with his results.
Art Garfunkel psoriasis