Takeaway #1
John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76.Takeaway #2
Updike wrote novels, short stories, poems, criticism, the memoir ''Self-Consciousness'' and even a famous essay about baseball great Ted Williams.Takeaway #3
Released more than 50 books in a career that started in the 1950s.
Takeaway #4
He received his greatest acclaim for the ''Rabbit'' series, a quartet of novels published over a 30-year span that featured ex-high school basketball star Harry ''Rabbit'' Angstrom and his restless adjustment to adulthood and the constraints of work and family.
