IJ Reilly
Jan 27, 2009, 07:38 PM
The author of more than 50 books and myriad short stories was revered by some critics and minimized by others. He was known for capturing the mood and emotions of small-town, middle-class America.
John Updike, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in small-town, middle-class America, died Tuesday. He was 76.
Updike's death from lung cancer was announced by Nicholas Latimer of Alfred A. Knopf, his publisher. Updike was a resident of Beverly Farms, Mass., but the announcement did not indicate where he died.
In a career spanning half a century, Updike published more than 50 books, more than 20 of them novels, and countless short stories, as well as collections of poetry. In recent years, he was best known for his art criticism and essays. His last published piece was a review of Toni Morrison's novel "A Mercy," in the Nov. 3, 2008, issue of the New Yorker.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-john-updike28-2009jan28,0,3942596.story
John Updike, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in small-town, middle-class America, died Tuesday. He was 76.
Updike's death from lung cancer was announced by Nicholas Latimer of Alfred A. Knopf, his publisher. Updike was a resident of Beverly Farms, Mass., but the announcement did not indicate where he died.
In a career spanning half a century, Updike published more than 50 books, more than 20 of them novels, and countless short stories, as well as collections of poetry. In recent years, he was best known for his art criticism and essays. His last published piece was a review of Toni Morrison's novel "A Mercy," in the Nov. 3, 2008, issue of the New Yorker.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-john-updike28-2009jan28,0,3942596.story
