pulitzer prize - nominee american fiction john updike has succumbed of stomach cancer at a hospice near his home in beverly estates , massachusetts . he was 76 . originally john hoyer updike in nazareth , pennsylvania in 1932 , he captured ordinary ― if highly depictions ― american living in around 50 productions , beginning with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once noted that his books were about " the american large county , muslim middle class " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.