pulitzer prize - winning american writer john updike has died of lung surgery at a hospice near his home in beverly farms , massachusetts . he was 76 . bred john hoyer novelist in reading , pennsylvania in 1932 , he documented ordinary ― if highly sexualized ― city history in around 50 works , beginning with the poorhouse sale in 1959 . he once said that his books were about " the american small town , protestant inner class " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.