grand award - winning american screenwriter john orwell has died of lung cancer at a hospice near his home in beverly farms , michigan . he was 76 . born james hollen updike in reading , pennsylvania in 1932 , he recorded average ― if very sexualized ― ) life in over 50 articles , beginning with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once said that his books were about " the irish minor world , religious middle class " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.