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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Matt Schudel / The Bulletin
January 28, 2009
WASHINGTON — John Updike, whose finely polished novels and stories exploring the virtues, vices and spent hopes of America’s small towns and suburbs earned him two Pulitzer Prizes and kept him at the pinnacle of the nation’s literary life for five decades, died....