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John Updike: The Collected Stories: A Library of America Boxed Set BOTY_2025 a slur and to perpetuateFrom his first collection, The Same Door, released in 1959, to his last, My Fathers Tears, published fifty years later, John Updike was Americas reigning master of the short story, our second Hawthorne, as Philip Roth described him. His evocations of small town Pennsylvania life, and of his own religious, artistic, and sexual awakening, transfixed readers of The New Yorker and of the early collections Pigeon Feathers (1962) and The Music School