- Recent biographies of John Updike and Saul Bellow take two very different approaches to their subjects. James Atlas “meditates on Bellow’s controversial role as a public intellectual, maintaining a remarkable level of objectivity,” while “William H. Pritchard, on the other hand, shies away from the personal details of Updike’s life, openly deriding ‘talk show revelations and displays’. He argues that ‘such events pale in interest when put next to [Updike’s] writings, products of all those hours sitting at the desk with pencil or typewriter or computer’.” – Chronicle of Higher Education
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