John Updike Dies at 76
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009(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.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols, Editing by Frances Kerry)
This is an interview John Updike did with Donald Murray – a locally reknown professor of journalism at the University of New Hampshire. Donald passed away in 2006.
*** The New York Times has a very good and extensive write up on Mr. Updike.
