John Updike (1932-2009)—like Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, the immortal wordsmith of India, who wrote 27 novels and numerous short stories and essays, presenting the commoner's life almost with pathological accuracy, based on his encounters with life as a country-youth that provided him with the inspiration, ingredients and storylines for his lifelike characters in the uncomplicated rural family settings of the late 19^th to early 20^th century Bengali society, and died of cancer on 16^th January 1938—drawing from his suburban American living experience, had authored 28 novels and published 14 collections of short stories, all centering around "the American small town, Protestant middle class" and nine volumes of poetry and countless reviews on the literary output during the second half of the 20^th century, and died of cancer on January 27, 2009 at the age of 76, in Boston, US.

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