The Chronicles of John Updike

Author John Updike has died at age 76. (Of lung cancer, in a hospice in Massachusetts.)

Obituary lede writers agree: Updike was all about the chronicles.

"John Updike, the great chronicler of middle-class America..." -The Financial Times

"John Updike, the Pulitzer prize-winning author and revered chronicler of small-town American life..." -The Daily Telegraph

"John Updike, the prolific writer who was... a chronicler of the loves and losses of small-town America..." -The Guardian

"John Updike... a prolific chronicler of American suburban mores, manners and misbehaviour..." -The Independent

"John Updike, the chronicler of American suburban adultery..." -The Times of London

"John Updike... who chronicled the drama of small-town American life with flowing and vivid prose, wit and a frank eye for sex..." -Reuters

"Prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning US novelist John Updike, whose books and short stories chronicled small-town American life..." -Agence France-Presse

"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..." -The Associated Press