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.
[From John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76 - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee]
As it happens, I'm just now re-reading - or first-listening to, if you want to get picky about it - Updike's "The Witches of Eastwick." I'd forgotten what a really terrific writer John Updike was. If you haven't read any of Updike's books, or even haven't read one in a long while, pick one up and give yourself a treat.
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Interestingly, i just recently discovered John Updike... I haven't fallen in love with all of his work yet, though i'm starting to enjoy his candid writing style;
his passing is a sad loss indeed
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