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John Updike, 1932-2009

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike has died of lung cancer at a hospice near his home in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. He was 76.

Updike was a prolific novelist, short story writer, poet, and critic. His books include A Month of Sundays, The Witches of Eastwick, Couples, In the Beauty of the Lilies, Too Far to Go, and the acclaimed Rabbit Novels — two of which, Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest, were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Rabbit is Rich and The Centaur also won National Book Awards. He released more than fifty books in his fifty-year career.

After graduating from Harvard, Updike briefly studied painting at Oxford University before accepting a job at The New Yorker. A short story collection, a book of poems, and his first novel soon followed.

Updike is celebrated as a writer who had his fingers firmly on the pulse of suburban disillusionment. Indeed, he often minutely examined the ups and downs of suburban life, shedding light on the everyday events that shape us. He once wrote that his career goal had been to “give the mundane its beautiful due.”

He is survived by his wife Martha, four children, and three grandchildren.

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January 27, 2009 | Filed Under Authors, Newsies

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