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February 2009, Cover Stories

FROM THE EDITORS' DESK: John Updike (3/18/32 - 1/27/09)

By Jean Palmer   Thu, Jan 29, 2009

John Updike, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, critic and poet died of cancer on January 27, 2009 at the age of 76. The following poem, entitled Requiem, is his own. It will be featured in "Endpoint and Other Poems," not yet released. Updike's last novel on audio, "The Widows of Eastwick" is reviewed in this issue along with "The Witches of Eastwick" which was first published 25 years ago.

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By Jean Palmer

Jean Palmer and Francine Levitov are founding co-editors of Sound Commentary.

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