While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat complacently at the centre and let life come to him so much of it, evidently, that he could not keep track of his appointments.
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John Updike was a 20th-century American writer. John Hoyer Updike 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, 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. Read more on Wikipedia →