Lung cancer claims author John Updike
January 28, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
John Updike, novelist and prolific author of essays, poems, and more, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, died yesterday morning after a battle with lung cancer.
He was writing right up to a couple of years ago, as his latest book, the Widows of Eastwick was just published in 2008.
You can read more about John Updike and his work over the past decades in these articles:
Award-winning author John Updike dies at 76
‘No writer was more important to the soul of The New Yorker’
John Updike celebrated the ordinary American
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