John Updike

The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.

The Carpentered Hen is the first poetry collection by John Updike, published by Harper in 1958.

The Early Stories: 1953–1975, published in 2003 by Knopf, is a John Updike book collecting much of his short stories written from the beginning of his writing career, when he was just 21, until 1975. Only four stories published in this entire time period have been omitted from this collection by John Updike himself: …