Autograph questionnaire response signed, 1970 Apr. 14.

Replying to 39 questions on the work produced by American writers in the past five years; citing Norman Mailer as the writer who least reveals himself in his work, whose prose style he most admires and to whose work he feels the deepest emotional response; naming Julian Claman as the writer whose narrative power is strongest and James Jones as the whose execution of character is strongest; choosing Thomas Pynchon, Herman Wouk and Shirley Hazzard as the three writers whom he would most like to have as neighbors; naming Julian Claman's "The Malediction" as his favorite novel of the past five years and "The Pedersen Kid" by William Gass as his favorite short story.