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Inscribed on first blank page: for Dan best wishes, John Updike 8/26/96Clean text. Price unclipped (23.00). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good plus condition with some minor rubbing on front from shelf wear.John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.Updike is considered one of the greatest American fiction writers of his generation. He was widely praised as America's "last true man of letters", with an immense and far-reaching influence on many writers. The excellence of his prose style is acknowledged even by critics… Read More