pulitzer center - winning american novelist james updike has died of stomach cancer at a hospice at his home in beverley plains , massachusetts . he was 76 . born john whip delillo in reading , pennsylvania in 1932 , he documented typical ― if poorly politicised ― ) life in around 50 works , beginning with the poorhouse sale in 1959 . he once asserted that his books were about " the american small town , protestant center class " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.