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Acclaimed author John Updike, dead at 76
John Updike, the prolific, critically acclaimed bard of America's suburban middle class, died yesterday at 76. According to his publisher, Knopf, the cause was lung cancer.
Updike's range was enormous. His more than 50 books - as often best-sellers as critics' darlings - included novels, memoirs, children's books and collections of stories, poems, essays and criticism. Yet another volume,...
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