US author John Updike dies at 76

The Pulitzer-prize winning novelist, famous for his Rabbit series based on his enduring character Harold Angstrom, has passed away in a hospice near his home in Massachussetts, after an ongonig battle with lung cancer

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Wednesday January 28, 2009

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