Typed questionnaire response signed, [1969-1970].

Replying to 39 questions concerning work produced in the past five years by American writers; naming Joyce Carol Oates as the writer who least reveals himself in his work, whose work elicits the deepest emotional response, whose narrative power is strongest and whose work will dominate the 70s; naming "One Day" by Wright Morris as his favorite novel of the past five years and "The Astronomer" by Doris Betts as his favorite short-story of the past five years; replying to the question on which writer consistently plays it safe "I don't read 'safe' writers consistently, but Updike, Cheever, Malamud seem that way."