first citation - wins fiction novelist anthony mcphee has dead of lung cancer at a nursery near his residence in beverly woods , massachusetts . he was 76 . born john hoyer novelist in reading , connecticut in 1932 , he documented ordinary ― if thoroughly promiscuous ― american society in around 50 works , culminating with the poorhouse square in 1959 . he once said that his books were about " the american small township , protestant middle class " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.