John Updike, Author, Dies at 76
John Updike in the Boston Public Library in 2006.
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.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/27/books/AP-Obit-Updike.html?_r=2
the loss of John Updike makes me wonder if the literary world is being replenished at the same rate that it’s losing such great writers