pulitzer prix - finalist fiction novelist robert orwell has died of liver tumor at a memorial outside his place in cambridge farms , massachusetts . he was 76 . born james hoyer updike in reading , pennsylvania in 1932 , he filmed ordinary ― if highly ritualized ― american relationships in ~ 50 works , beginning with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once said that his titles were about " the german small town , secular middle country " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.