Autograph questionnaire response signed, [1969-1970].

Replying to the first question asking which two novels altered the course of fiction; amending the question to read "enriched the literacy of fiction" and saying "I have not listed Pynchon's "V" or Heller's "Catch-22" because they fall outside the 5-year period called for. Did they not, the former would be among those in question #1; " naming "Omensetter's Luck" (Gass) and "Portnoy's Complaint" (Roth) in his answers to question 1; naming Nabokov as the writer whose prose style he most admires and whose narrative power is strongest; naming Roth as the writer whose execution of character is strongest; replying to the question asking which three writers he would most like to have as neighbors, "Mailer, Roth, Nabokov;" naming "Portnoy's Complaint" as his favorite novel of the past five years and "Menelaiad" (Barth) as his favorite short story of the past five years.