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'Rabbit' is dead: John Updike, age 76, succumbs to lung cancer

by Clarence Cromwell

The Associated Press reports that John Updike, the American novelist, poet and critic, died today, according to a statement released by his publisher. He was the author of more than 60 books, for decades a frequent contributor to the New Yorker, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize

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Don't forget to include in his list of accomplishments, he was also on [t:The Simpsons].

Here's an uplifting quote from Updike, "Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews." Scratch that, maybe that's not so uplifting.

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