Los Angeles Times | January 27, 2009 | 10:26 a.m. PT --- Writer John Updike dead at 76 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 today at age 76. Updike, a resident of Beverly Farms, Mass., died of lung cancer, according to a statement from his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. More soon at: http://link.latimes.com/r/5FXEVW/753VJ/V6HUWD/5DGP/M9RKO3/4O/t
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