January 28, 2009. John Updike, one of American's most prolific modern writers, lost a battle with lung cancer this morning, according to Nicholas Latimer of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House. Updike, a Harvard graduate who won the Pulitzer in 1981 for his novel Rabbit is Rich, and again in 1991 for Rabbit at Rest, was 76.
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