Updike dead

[SeattleUte]

This really sucks. I loved Updike.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009...Updike.html?hp

[RobinFinderson]

He was one of the great ones.

[cougjunkie]

About time, I hated that guy.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

So he dies with Terrorist as his last book? Not his best.

[Clark Addison]

So he dies with Terrorist as his last book? Not his best.

How many author's last book is their best, other than Harper Lee and Ralph Ellison?

[PaloAltoCougar]

Updike was one of the great contemporary American writers. I always wished he'd write something more hopeful or elevating, but he he did a superb job of describing the mundane in interesting ways. Harry Angstrom has to be one of the dullest characters in literature, and yet his life was made fascinating by a gifted author.

Updike's short stories and essays on golf are must reads for any golfer.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

How many author's last book is their best, other than Harper Lee and Ralph Ellison?

True.