Tuesday, January 27, 2009

News at Eleven: John Updike, the kaleidoscopically gifted writer

whose quartet of Rabbit Angstrom novels highlighted so vast and protean a body of fiction, verse, essays and criticism as to place him in the first rank of among American men of letters, died on Tuesday. He was 76 and lived in Beverly Farms, Mass.

from The New York Times: John Updike, a Lyrical Writer of the Ordinary, Is Dead at 76
also The Boston Globe: Acclaimed writer John Updike dies at 76
also Telegraph: John Updike: a life in quotes
also NPR: Updike's 'This I Believe' Essay
also Scientific American: The Dance of the Solids

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