academy prize - winning american novelist john updike has been of lung cancer at a farmhouse behind his dwelling in beverly farms , massachusetts . he was 76 . created john boehner updike in franklin , pennsylvania in 1932 , he documenting ordinary ― if highly sexualized ― american childhood in around 50 work , culminating with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once said that his films were about " the us medium town , presbyterian middle town " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.