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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
John Updike
John Updike died today at the age of 76 from lung cancer.
He was an American novelist, a poet, a short story writer, an art critic, and a literary critic.
His most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered), two of which received the Pulitzer Prize.
He also wrote The Witches of Eastwick in 1984 which was later made into a movie of the same name.
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John Updike's passing is sad, but he left a ton of awesome work. "Immortality is nontransferrable" he said appropriately.
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