William Pritchard, known in Updike circles for his book, Updike: America’s Man of Letters (Steerforth Press, 2000), graduated from Amherst College in 1953 and, now retired as a Professor Emeritus after teaching for the same institution for many decades, has written a piece for Amherst Magazine titled “Life After Amherst?”

In it, he talks about his career and a piece he thought about writing, though he admits, “When I revealed to my spouse that I was going to write something vaguely on the subject of life after Amherst, she scoffed, declaring that there was, for me, no life after Amherst.”

Here is the link.