John Updike letters and manuscript short story, "Killing," 1976-1981.

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John Updike letters and manuscript short story, "Killing," 1976-1981.

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The collection contains Updike's typescript letter, 1 July 1976, to Robie Macauley, Playboy magazine fiction editor, withdrawing the submission of his short story, "Killing;" a photocopy of an edited typescript of "Killing" (15 pages); and two typecript letters to Ms. Turner at Playboy, resubmitting "Killing," 25 March 1981, and submitting three stories about Henry Bech that follow "The Holy Land," with a holograph note that he hasn't received the issues of Playboy with "Killing" in it, 7 December 1981.

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Macauley, Robie.

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Robie Mayhew Macauley (1919-1995) was educated at Kenyon College, Iowa State University and the University of London. During and after World War II he served as an agent for the Counter-intelligence Corps in Europe and Japan. Some of the material for his short stories was based on his experience in intelligence work. Macauley taught at Bard College and the University of Iowa before coming to the Woman's College (UNCG) in 1950. In August 1953 he resigned from his teaching position, moving on to e...

Updike, John

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American novelist. From the description of Rich in Russia : corrected typescript signed, ca. 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122552988 John Updike, born 18 March 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania, was a novelist, critic, short story writer, poet, essayist, and dramatist; he died 27 January 2009. From the description of John Updike letters and manuscript short story, "Killing," 1976-1981. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 6714887...