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Tributes have started pouring in for American author John Updike, who died yesterday (27th January) aged 76.
His US publisher Alfred Knopf described Updike as "one of our greatest writers" in a statement to the press.
"He was a part of the Knopf family for over 50 years," the statement said. "We will all miss him terribly."
An obituary in the http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jan/28/john-updi... target="_blank">Guardian, headlined An American Balzac described Updike as filled with the same exuberance for life as F Scott Fitzgerald's character Jay Gatsby. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/4365048/John-Updike-autho... target="_blank">The Telegraph called him a "revered chronicler of small-town American life".
Updike was born in Pennsylvanie in 1932. Educated at Harvard and Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, he worked at the New Yorker and wrote more than 60 books, including 28 novels. Updike won a swathe of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Last November, the Literary Review magazine also awarded him its Bad Sex in Fiction lifetime achievement award.