DAVID UPDIKE is the author of "Out on the Marsh" as well as an illustrated quartet for young readers: "A Winter Journey", "An Autumn Tale", "A Spring Story", and "The Sounds of Summer". His short stories have been published in "The New Yorker", "Epiphany, "and" Sargasso, "among others"." He is also a photographer and photographically illustrated the children's book, "A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects, "written by his late father, writer John Updike. He teaches English at Roxbury Community College in Boston and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his family.