the cup - shortlisted american novelist jean orwell has deceased of throat cancer at a hospice near his home in wellesley farms , massachusetts . he was 76 . born paul clyburn mailer in carlisle , pennsylvania in 1932 , he chronicle ordinary ― if highly sexualized ― boston life in nearly 50 works , beginning with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once said that his books were about " the european little town , protestant middle class " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.