Pulitzer-prize winning novelist John Updike has passed away due to lung cancer. He was 76.
John Hoyer Updike was born on March 18th, 1932, in Reading, PA. He later studied English at Harvard University, where he contributed to, and later edited, the satirical Harvard Lampoon Magazine.
He also met his first wife, Mary Entwistle Pennington, there. He married her in June 1953, a year before he earned his A.B. degree summa cum laude, but divorced her in 1975. Two years later, he remarried, to Martha Bernhard.
He later joined the writing staff of the New Yorker magazine.
John Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; and Rabbit Remembered). He won Pulitzers for Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit at Rest.
The announcement of Updike's death was made by his publisher. Nicholas Latimer of Alfred A. Knopf, a unit of Random House said:
"It is with great sadness that I report that John Updike died this morning at the age of 76, after a battle with lung cancer. He was one of our greatest writers, and he will be sorely missed."
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