Alfred A. Knopf has announced that John Updike died of lung cancer today at age 76. More words to come (including yours in the comments).

• The Times obit by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt.
• Updike’s 855 author search results on the New Yorker website, as well as reminiscinces and other posts on the newyorker.com blogs Book Bench and Goings On. (This comment thread is open for readers’ memories of the author.)
• An archive of Emdashes posts on Updike.
• The New York Review of Books‘ Updike archive (unfortunately, almost all subscription-only)
• From Vanity Fair, James Wolcott—noted here just the other day for his all-embracing take on The Widows of Eastwick—with a tribute and a recommendation of a “book that captures Updike’s writerly public persona best.”
• The London Review of Books‘ homepage showcases 21 essays on Updike from its archives—by 17 men, I might add, including Frank Kermode, the Woods James and Michael, and the Jameses Atlas and Wolcott aforementioned. The Times Literary Supplement unsheaths its 1996 review by Gore Vidal of In the Beauty of the Lilies (and “the failings of its author”), which at 10,000 words is “the longest review ever printed in the TLS.”