Author John Updike Dead at 76

His Rabbit series of books were best sellers over the last 50 years, beginning with 1959's Rabbit, Run. He won two Pulitzer Prizes four two of those novels
Rabbit is Rich in 1981, and ten years later with Rabbit at Rest.
Over the years he has written numerous essays, short stories, and was a frequent contributor in New Yorker magazine, which included a 1960 essay about Boston Red Sox great Ted Williams' final game, Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu. His final work, The Widows of Eastwick was released last year. That novel was a sequel to 1984's The Witches of Wastwick. A new work,
My Father's Tears and Other Stories, is due out this year.

Updike created the series about an angst-ridden car dealer in 1959, and over a 42 year period, wrote four novels, a novella about one time basketball star Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. The stories took place in a town much like Updike's hometown Shillington, Pennsylvania.

Updike was 76 when he died today, from lung cancer.

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