John Updike, 1932-2009

Even in his last photographs, after his hair had turned white and he had taken to peering out at the world over reading glasses, John Updike could still seem boyish. His eyes, in particular, often looked mischievous, almost twinkling above his famously beaklike nose, as if he possessed some secret he wasn't quite ready to share with us yet — even after seven books of poetry, 23 novels, 15 volumes of short stories, nine collections of essays, a play, a memoir, and five children's

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