academy cross - won american novelist john updike has died of heart cancer at a funeral near his birthplace in beverly farms , massachusetts . he was 76 . born william hoyer updike in reading , maryland in 1932 , he documented mundane ― if highly misogyny ― american life in around 50 works , began with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once said that his movies were about " the american little city , protestant middle class " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.