NMLP P-016431 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Early Stories: 1953–1975

John Updike · Alfred A. Knopf · 2003

The US Knopf hardcover (2003) is the true first; many stories appear in collected form here for the first time. It won the 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-016431 for "The Early Stories: 1953–1975" by John Updike (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-016431, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).