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John Updike dies, aged 76
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE50Q5WR20090127?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. author John Updike, a leading writer of his generation who chronicled the drama of American suburban life with searing wit, died on Tuesday, his publisher said.
"It is with great sadness that I report that John Updike died this morning at the age of 76, after a battle with lung cancer. He was one of our greatest writers, and he will be sorely missed," said Nicholas Latimer of Alfred A. Knopf.
Updike was best-known internationally for his series of four novels and a novella about the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom through the latter decades of the 20th century and for the novel "The Witches of Eastwick."
Twice a winner of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, Updike was also a poet and short-story writer and essayist.
He lived in Beverly Farms, Mass.
John Updike dies, aged 76
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE50Q5WR20090127?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. author John Updike, a leading writer of his generation who chronicled the drama of American suburban life with searing wit, died on Tuesday, his publisher said.
"It is with great sadness that I report that John Updike died this morning at the age of 76, after a battle with lung cancer. He was one of our greatest writers, and he will be sorely missed," said Nicholas Latimer of Alfred A. Knopf.
Updike was best-known internationally for his series of four novels and a novella about the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom through the latter decades of the 20th century and for the novel "The Witches of Eastwick."
Twice a winner of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, Updike was also a poet and short-story writer and essayist.
He lived in Beverly Farms, Mass.