John Updike: 1932 - 2009

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In creating his most celebrated character, Harry Angstrom, Updike (picture with his sone in 1966) imagined a person unlike himself. Rabbit was a vulgar, crass, lusty, middle-class salesman whom Updike used to anatomize and dramatize the great American spiritual and cultural crises.

• John Updike, Literary Heavyweight