Updike on literary biography

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Richard Romeo wrote:

> Based on Updike's and Pynchon's (and probably many writers) views on 
> this:  Was Joyce merely an anomaly, seeing as his work fairly screams 
> knowledge of his life?

Proust also--whom Updike holds up even more prominently as having
biographic interest than Joyce.

Does Pynchon's writing ever gets autobiographical on us? How could it?
The life of the artist isn't his subject.

				P.