India, May 15 -- Emmy Award-winning writer Steve Pepoon, famed for the animation show 'The Simpsons', has died at the age of 68 unexpectedly outside his home at US' Kansas.

He was battling cardiac amyloidosis, a heart condition, for two years.

He died in Paola, Kansas on May 3, his wife Mary Stephenson told The Hollywood Reporter.

Pepoon was born in the US's Kansas City on May 19, 1956. He grew up in Paola, Kansas, and graduated from Kansas State University. He moved to Los Angeles in 1979, breaking into the TV industry with a script in 1985. His script later became an episode of 'Silver Spoons' that aired in January 1986.

Fifteen months later, he was hired as a staff writer on 'ALF', another NBC comedy, and wrote for its final three ...