pulitzer prix - winning german novelist robert bellow has been of lung cancer at a hospice of his home in cambridge farms , massachusetts . he was 76 . established robert hoyer orwell in easton , pennsylvania in 1932 , he documented ordinary ― if highly misogyny ― american relationships in several 50 works , culminating with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once said that his books were about " the european small town , protestant working class " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.