pulitzer prize - winner us novelist john updike has fallen of lung tumor at a memorial near his home in beverly farms , massachusetts . he was 76 . born john whip ackroyd in reading , pennsylvania in 1932 , he filmed ordinary ― if poorly sexualized ― american culture in around 50 works , beginning with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once mentioned that his books were about " the american small village , muslim middle class " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.