Pulitzer Prize

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike has died from lung cancer at the age of 76.

Updike published more than 50 books during a career spanning six decades, won numerous awards, was a regular fixture on best-seller lists and had his work immortalized in celluloid in 1987 when his book The Witches of Eastwick was adapted into a film starring Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer and Cher.

His death was announced on Tuesday in a statement from his publisher Alfred A. Knopf.

RIP, John.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

What is the opposite of doubt? Is it certainty? Belief? Or is it hope?

When John Patrick Shanley decided to bring Doubt, his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, to the screen as both the film’s director and writer, he tackled the project, which he called “the hardest script I ever wrote,” with a tremendous amount of love, trust and belief that the adaptation could soar as the stage production had.