Novelist John Updike died yesterday at age 76 of lung cancer. Hillel Italie of the AP describes him as a “Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire,” best known for his four ‘Rabbit’ novels.
Also in the Boston Globe [...]
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Writer Michael Crichton died yesterday of cancer at age 66. He’s the author of The Andromeda Strain (1969), Jurassic Park (1990), and other novels, and the creator of the long-running medical drama series, ER. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, studied anthropology at Cambridge University, and graduated from Harvard Medical School in [...]
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