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Harvard’s Houghton Library announced earlier this week that it will acquire the John Updike Archive—an extensive collection of Updike??€™s original manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and files, including documents that the author had kept private...
...Library had previously acquired a part of Updike??€™s records, when he gave Harvard several manuscripts before the 1970s, when a tax law changed that prohibited tax deductions for donations of personal archives, according to Morris...
Updike indicated in his will that he wanted the remainder of his archive to go to Harvard, though the University had to pay an undisclosed amount of money to Updike??€™s literary trust to complete the acquisition...
...Stein '10 and John B. Owen '10 led the meeting in a room in the part of the castle near Plympton Street. The room, a circular creation, featured book-lined walls—everything from a collection of bound Time magazines to a set of now-dead alumnus John Updike??€™s Rabbit, Run series. On top of the bookcases stood a collection of knick-knacks that included an empty bottle of Maker’s Mark—a FlyBy favorite—a bottle of peroxide, a pink Flamingo, and the Improper Bostonian?...
Lewis L. B. Gifford ’51, who worked with Updike on The Lampoon, said Updike once showed him a bound volume of his early writings in his Hollis dorm room. The work had been typed by Updike??€™s mother, herself an aspiring writer who worked in a department store...