John Updike is dead...

Renowned US novelist John Updike has died at the age of 76, his publisher has announced. He had been suffering from lung cancer. 

Updike won many top literary prizes, including Pulitzers for two volumes of his famous Rabbit series. 

In about 50 books over half-a-century, he chronicled sex, divorce and other aspects of post-war America. 

He once described his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class".

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