John Updike, the kaleidoscopically gifted writer whose quartet of Rabbit Angstrom novels highlighted so vast and protean a body of fiction, verse, essays and criticism as to earn him comparisons with Henry James and Edmund Wilson among American men of letters, died Tuesday. He was 76 and lived in Beverley Farms. Massachusetts.
The cause of death was lung cancer, his publisher, Knopf, said in a statement.
2 comments:
Certainly a very great wordsmith. I was not a huge fan of Mr. Rabbits novels though. For such a staunch religionist I thought Updike seemed to reveal in the decline of manners and morals of the upper upper middle class. Perhaps it was irony though. The decline of civilization in the West. No doubt policemen and women would understand that in this day and age!
Troutbirder -
I'll admit I haven't read much Updike. I think I read one of his Rabit series but if I did, it was so long ago that I don't remember much. Your comments are interesting and now I'm thinking about checking on him a bit more.
cjh
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