When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas ...
Contributors: Van Vliet, Claire, ill; Van Vliet, Claire, illustrator; Janus Press
Publisher: ALA
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Copyright date: 1968
Notes: "Copyright c 1968 by John Updike. 550 reprinted from Picked-up pieces by permission of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. at the Janus Press."

Distributed to members attending the ALA banquet, New York, 2 July 1986. The Houghton Library copy is a gift of the then president, Beverly P. Lynch.

Designed by Claire Van Vliet.

De Bellis & Broomfield.  John Updike, A95[a]