pulitzer competition - winning american director john updike has died of lung cancer at a bedside near his home in beverly farms , massachusetts . he was 76 . born john pelosi pynchon in reading , pennsylvania in 1932 , he filmed unusual ― if highly exploitative ― american lives in around 50 works , beginning with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once admitted that his books were about " the american medium time , protestant middle class " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.