Rabbit runs no more – Updike has died
by sernabad
John Updike, one of America’s great authors, died this morning of lung cancer at age 76.
Updike was the recipient of a pair of Pulitzer Prizes for two of his entries in his famous Rabbit series. Rabbit Is Rich won in 1981; Rabbit at Rest won a decade later.
Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, used car salesman in Shillington, PA, reflected post-World War II American mores through four novels: Rabbit, Run (1960) and Rabbit Redux (1971) plus a wrap-up novella, Rabbit Remembered, which appears in Licks of Love (2000).
Updike was also known for his bestselling The Witches of Eastwick, 1984, which became a popular movie by the same title, starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, and Michelle Pfeiffer.
His literary awards are too numerous to list but, in addition to the Pulitzers, he also brought home two National Book Awards (for Rabbit Is Rich and Centaur (1964).
Updike’s last book, My Father’s Tears and Other Stories, will be published this summer.
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