From the Associated Press:
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.
Updike was born in Reading, Pa. Read the rest of his obit story at the jump.
This just in from the Associated Press:
A representative for Patrick Swayze says the cancer-stricken actor plans to write a memoir and his wife, Lisa, will collaborate with him on the book.
Publicist Jayme Phillips says plans for the book are "extremely premature."
Says Phillips: "There's no publisher. There's no dates. There's no anything else."
Swayze, who has battled pancreatic cancer for the last year, spent a week in the hospital earlier this month after contracting pneumonia.
The 56-year-old actor stars in the new A&E drama "The Beast."
