SOURCE: '"Why Not Tell the Truth?': The Autobiographies of Three Fiction Writers," in Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, Vol. XXXII, No. 4, Summer, 1991, pp. 211-23.
In the following essay, Bailey focuses on autobio graphical works by John Updike, Philip Roth, and Tobias Wolff in a discussion of a late twentieth-century trend toward merging fiction and autobiography.
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