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John Updike
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Actor, Book Author, Short Story Author Born: March 18, 1932 Death: January 27, 2009 Biography:Arguably one of the most accomplished and influential and certainly among the most prolific of late 20th and early 21st century belletrists, John Updike left behind a vast and illuminating body of work, with 61 published novels, collections of short stories, and essay compilations at the time of his death from lung cancer in January 2009. Though his novels and stories were topically and thematically somewhat diverse, many shared a preoccupation with the vicissitudes of day-to-day life among middle-class American Protestants during the post-WWII years and undertook more than a passing glance at their conflicting mores and sexual hypocrisies. The majority, as well, eschewed uplift for a dark and brooding pessimism about human nature, offset by Updike's wicked sense of humor, the magic of his word choice, and the richness of his imagery. Over the course of his career, such titles as the Rabbit tetralogy,... Full Biography
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