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Author John Updike, regarded as one of the greatest and most prolific writers in modern American letters, has died, his publicist said. He was 76.
He passed away Tuesday morning after battling lung cancer.
AP New York
John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76.
Updike, a resident of Beverly Farms, Mass., died of lung cancer, according to a statement from his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf.
Times of London:
Updike was best known for his stylistic literary criticism as well as his Rabbit series of books. Rabbit is Rich, published in 1981, received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Updike, a resident of Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, died of lung cancer, according to a statement from his publisher, Alfred A Knopf.