People often ask me if I ever got starstruck when I was interviewing famous people -- and yes, it happened sometimes.
One of those times in early 1994, when I had the opportunity to interview a true literary lioin: novelist, short-story writer, poet, and critic John Updike.
How big a literary figure is he?
Well, John Updike is one of only three writers who have ever won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.

People often ask me if I ever got starstruck when I was interviewing famous people -- and yes, it happened sometimes. One of those times in early 1994, when I had the opportunity to interview a true literary lioin: novelist, short-story writer, poet, and critic John Updike. How big a literary figure is he? Well, John Updike is one of only three writers who have ever won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.

John Updike

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