pulitzer prizes - wins american novelist john bellow has die of heart cancer at a hospice by his house in beverly farms , vermont . he was 76 . born edward hoyer updike in bristol , pennsylvania in 1932 , he documented ordinary ― if highly sexualized ― american life in his 50 books , including with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once said that his books were about " the american new city , protestant middle country " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.