But that visitor will also find a link to a personal page maintained by the page's creator, a grad student at Purdue named Derek Royal. On The Centaurian, a John Updike page maintained by James Yerkes, a professor of Religion and Philosophy at Pennsylvania's Moravian College, a recent update included a bulletin about Yerkes' own personal tragedy. This week I was defending my Dalmatian from an attack by a Pit Bulldog on the beach in Provincetown, and fractured my finger quite badly. Surgery tomorrow, so there will be delays in entries for a few days. Hunt and peck by the left hand goes slowly, of course.
Some sites are even more confessional.
And a computer software expert named John Walkenbach, the man behind the Nicholson Baker Fan Page, implies that he erected his site because he felt sorry for Baker. In fact, my primary source of information comes from book jackets.