Best-selling and Pulitzer Prize wining author, John Updike, has died at the age of 75 after his battle with lung cancer. I smiled when reading that he was born in Reading, PA, wondering how much the name of the Town you are born in influences your profession.

His writing skills developed early in life and are attributed to his mother who encouraged him to express himself in writing because he had a speech difficulty and struggled with a skin condition called Psoriasis.

He was Harvard educated, and wrote for a time for The New Yorker. He wrote many novels, short stories, and more, and was a literary critic. He is best known for his Rabbit series, two of which won him Pulitzer Prizes…”Rabbit is Rich” and “Rabbit at Rest”. And for those who would rather view than read, and remember the movie “The Witches of Eastwick”, it was based on the book by Updike.

I don’t have details on his death, except that it was the end of a battle with lung cancer.
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