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John Updike

...today died. He was 76.

He was one of the quintessential American writers, and definitely in a league with Faulkner, Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

He'll be missed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/books/28updike.html?pagewanted=5&_r=1&hp
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