Selected Letters of John Updike Edited by James Schiff
Early on in his prodigious career, John Updike began to bundle stacks of his personal papers off to the Houghton Library at Harvard, which eagerly collected them. Posterity on the installment plan.
It should come as no surprise that an author who produced a vast shelf of novels, story collections, essay collections, books of literary and art criticism, volumes of poetry, and a memoir should have written a lot of letters—more than 25,000, according to James Schiff, who has edited a new collection of Updike’s correspondence.
