... John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76. (Dave Lull has also alerted me to this.)
More here: John Updike Dies and here: Acclaimed writer John Updike dies at 76.
... from The Telegraph: John Updike.
... Christopher Lehman-Haupt: American writer John Updike dies.
CNN: Famed author John Updike dies of cancer at 76. (Hat tip, Scott Stein.)
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He just became a frontrunner for the Nobel Prize in Literature. (Pardon my snark, but if this does happen to happen, it's looong overdue.)
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They don't give the Nobel to deceased authors,however. So he is out of the running.
ReplyDeleteIt is a tremendous shock, tremendous. John Updike is one of the writers -- one of the very few -- I considered to almost have been part of my life, for 50 years. I admire just about every thing he did -- his creations, his versatility, his range, his knowledge. If it wasn't literary genius, it was its next-door neighbor.
ReplyDeleteYou can't win it posthumously? I was pretty sure Faulker was dead when he accepted; just everybody thought he was alive 'cause he'd managed the rare feat of embalming himself, while still breathing, with alcohol.
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