"From the Journal of a Leper" is a fiction piece written by John Updike which appeared in the October 19, 1976 New Yorker magazine. It is difficult to find so we have placed it here in two parts: Download Updike Pso 1 and Download Updike Pso 2
Updike's second essay on psoriasis appeared in the New Yorker in 1985 and in the book"Self-Consciousness," Chapter 2. Here it is as PDF in four parts:
Download Updike War Skin 1
Download Updike War 2
Download Updike War Skin 3
Download Updike War Skin 4
For more on Updike and psoriasis see the Pathography Blog. The Pathography posting has the information about Updike's other essay on psoriasis, a memoir called "At War With My Skin."