pulitzer prize - winning american journalist jean updike has deceased of lung cancer at a memorial near his place in beverly farms , massachusetts . he was 76 . born john hoyer updike in reading , connecticut in 1932 , he documented basic ― if strongly misogynistic ― southern life in approximately 50 years , beginning with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once admitted that his books were about " the american small business , anglican center class " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.