In the book Updike in Cincinnati (2007), James Schiff has a small anecdote about how John Bernhard, Updike's stepson, made a visit to a literary reading and was greeted by the novelist with "a ...

John Updike, 76, a leading writer of his generation who chronicled the small-town American life with flowing and vivid prose, wit and a frank eye for sex, died on Tuesday of lung cancer. "It is ...