John Updike

American novelist and critic who chronicled middle-class Protestant America through four decades of Rabbit Angstrom novels — and was perhaps the most prolific and technically accomplished American literary journalist of the 20th century.

Rabbit tetralogy: Rabbit, Run / Rabbit Redux / Rabbit Is Rich / Rabbit at Rest — an American life through postwar history, each novel set a decade apart. The Villages: late career. Literary criticism: roughly a review per week for The New Yorker for decades — a body of criticism unmatched in American letters.