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Pulitzer Prize winning author, John Updike, passed away at 76. (AP Images)

John Updike died of lung cancer today at the age of 76. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist published over 50 books in his career, which began in the 1950s. Along with novels, Updike also published short stories, poems, criticism, the memoir Self-Consciousness, as well as a famous essay about baseball player Ted Williams. During his celebrated career, Updike won two Pulitzers, for Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit at Rest, and two National Book Awards.

Updike became most famous as a "chronicler of suburban adultery" with his most famous titles including Couples, which sold millions of copies and Too Far to Go, a novel that detailed the tumultuous marriage and divorce of a suburban couple.

Updike was a resident of Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. He leaves behind four children.