John Updike - American Writers 79 was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Charles Thomas Samuels taught English at Williams College. He wrote on films for the American Scholar and Hudson Review and on books for the Atlantic Monthly, Book World, the Kenyon Review, the Nation, the New Republic, and many others.