John Updike, 1932-2009

Via the New York Times, sad news: John Updike, Author, Dies at 76. Excerpt:

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.

I didn't read all of Updike's novels, and I didn't always like those I did read, but I deeply respected him as a man of letters: superbly literate, disciplined as a writer, a brilliant essayist. Few writers have observed their times more perceptively.

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John Updike's passing is sad, but he left a ton of awesome work. "Immortality is nontransferrable" he said appropriately.