pulitzer prize - winning american novelist john delillo has died of lung cancer at a vineyard around his home in beverly farms , massachusetts . he was 76 . raised john hoyer wodehouse in reading , pennsylvania in 1932 , he documented ordinary ― if highly sexualized ― american life in around 50 novels , beginning with the poorhouse fair in 1959 . he once said that his books were about " the american small town , western middle class " .
John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize.