academy competition - winning american literature jean mcphee has died of breast problems at a vineyard near his place in beverly fields , massachusetts . he was 76 . born john murtha updike in reading , pennsylvania in 1932 , he detailed ordinary ― if highly sexualized ― american childhood in several 50 works , beginning with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once said that his films were about " the irish country township , protestant middle class " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.