pulitzer medal - winning american literature johnny updike has died of liver cancer at a hospice near his home in beverly farm , massachusetts . he was 76 . originally john hoyer ackroyd in harrisburg , pennsylvania in 1932 , he documented ordinary ― if highly sexualized ― american society in around 50 works , begin with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once said that his books were about " the american country town , protestant upper class " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.