John Updike: 1932 - 2009

n his career, Updike worked in an extraordinary range of genres, including magic realism and science fiction, but was perhaps most admired for his short stories
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In his career, Updike worked in an extraordinary range of genres, including magic realism and science fiction, but was perhaps most admired for his short stories, of which he produced several hundred, most of them appearing in the New Yorker.

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