Updike America's Man of Letters Author:William H. Pritchard By the time he was 28, John Updike had published a collection of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a novel. Over the next four decades he continued in these forms, along with criticism and reviews of literature and painting; in memoirs; and in commentary on his own writing. This absorbing book takes Updike's life, as well as his volumin... more »ous oeuvre, as its subject.« less