John Updike , author of `` Rabbit '' books and `` The Witches of Eastwick , '' dies . Updike , 76 , had been suffering from lung cancer . The next year , in `` Rabbit , Run , '' he introduced Angstrom , who was to become one of the most famous characters in American fiction . He was a writer who wrote about the American South in his novels
John Updike , author of `` Rabbit '' books and `` The Witches of Eastwick , '' dies . Updike , 76 , had been suffering from lung cancer . He was a writer who wrote about the American South in his novels