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An e-mail from Random House announces that John Updike died this morning at the age of 76, after a battle with lung cancer. [UPDATE: Here is the initial report from The Associated Press.] NEW YORK (AP) -- 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.
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A sad day for American literature....
Now begins the long work of evaluating his career. It won't be easy because his fiction was more uneven than many fans would like to admit. But when it was good, it was very, very good indeed.
He was an indifferent poet, but among America's very best essayists. And nobody wrote about art with the clarity and perception of John Updike.