""I was astonished," said Schiff, "I didn't even think I would get a response, and not only did I get a response, but given the timing, he probably got the letter on a Tuesday, and then he had the response in the mail to me on Wednesday with all my questions answered.""
"According to Schiff, who recently published the edited book "Selected Letters of John Updike," Updike wrote more than 25,000 of them in his lifetime. The volume spans 60 years of the writer's correspondence, which Schiff considers "an integral part" of Updike's "astonishing literary output.""
""Updike made the mundane, quotidian life of middle America so beautiful, interesting, and mysterious," said Schiff."
James Schiff sent a letter to John Updike as a graduate student and received an unusually quick, detailed reply. Schiff edited Selected Letters of John Updike, a collection spanning sixty years and documenting more than 25,000 letters. John Updike produced over 60 books along with nearly 2,000 short stories, poetry collections, essays, and literary criticism. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice for novels in the Rabbit series and died in 2009 at age 76. Updike's portrayals of small-town, middle-class America emphasized beauty, interest, and mystery in quotidian life.
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