John Updike papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: New Yorker; American literature; American poetry
Description: Correspondence, galley proofs, plate proof, typescripts, notes, book covers, poems, photographs, and other papers.  Includes drafts and other material for Updike's novels The Centaur, Of the Farm, and The Poorhouse Fair; drafts of the poetry anthology, Midpoint, and Other Poems; and drafts of other poems, many published in the New Yorker.  Correspondence relates chiefly to publication of Updike's works.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, John Updike, 1964-1970.

Novelist, short story writer, and poet.  Born 1932.

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