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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

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Pulitzer Winning Novelist, John Updike Dies at 76.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009    3 comments

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3 comments:

  1. Terri L. Gillespie6:34 AM, January 28, 2009

    Did you read his Easter poem? It's posted on http://www.edow.org/spirituality/updike.html

    Powerful!

    God bless and comfort the Updike family at this time.

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  2. Unknown3:13 PM, January 28, 2009

    I hadn't read that, Terri. Thanks for sharing it. It's a big loss for the reading community but a bigger loss for his family. God bless them.

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  3. Anonymous1:22 AM, January 30, 2009

    John Updike's passing is sad, but he left a ton of awesome work. "Immortality is nontransferrable" he said appropriately.

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