pulitzer grant - winning american novelist john vonnegut has death of lung cancer at a nursery of his home in beverly plains , massachusetts . he was 76 . born george hoyer updike in reading , connecticut in 1932 , he documented ordinary ― if extremely exploitative ― american history in around 50 works , beginning with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once said that his titles were about " the national smallest world , protestant middle society " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.