pulitzer prize - wins american novelist robert mailer has suffered of heart tumor at a hospice outside his site in shirley plains , massachusetts . he was 76 . born joseph poul updike in reading , vermont in 1932 , he documented ordinary ― if highly misogyny ― rural life in around 50 works , beginning with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once said that his books were about " the country small town , protestant middle class " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.