American novelist, poet, and short-story writer John Updike died on this day, January 27, in 2009. Born in 1932, Updike is one of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. He published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children’s books.

See some other Pulitzer Prize winners who were photographed by Karsh include Pearl Buck, Gian Carlo Menotti, Samuel Barber, Robert Frost, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Carl Sandburg.