John Updike

Ian McEwan, one of my favourite authors, who has written, among other acclaimed novels -- Black Dogs (1992), has now written a wonderful article on the occasion of the recent passing of another one of my literary favourites -- John Updike.

Updike died on January 27, 2009 at the age of 76. The Guardian's obituary headline read: "John Updike, chronicler of American loves and losses, dies at 76." One of my favourite novels by Updike was a novel published in 1978 entitled, The Coup; and one of the best collection of essays I've ever read is, entitled, "Self-Consciousness:Memoirs (1989)."