Michael Updike Looks For A Cartoon Michael Updike contacted the Spill recently in search of a multi-panel New Yorker drawing, published in the 1970s, similar to the one (shown below) his father, John Updike, did for The Harvard Lampoon in the early 1950s. After a thorough search through The New Yorker’s database the only drawing I found that came
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Last week we were thrilled to see John Updike’s Thurber dog drawing (shown to the left) courtesy of Miranda Updike. Today we learn that Thurber’s dog traveled with Updike from his latter childhood home, in Plowville, Pennsylvania, to Harvard Yard (Updike went to Harvard from 1950 through 1954). Here, courtesy of Michael Updike, is a letter John Updike wrote home
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