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Salinger

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by Paul Alexander


  When asked . . . “the bread lines of the thirties”: This quote comes from my interview with Roger Lathbury.

  GHOSTS IN THE SHADOWS

  The material in this chapter, including all quotes, are taken from my New York article “J. D. Salinger’s Women.” Much of the chapter is confirmed by incidents in At Home in the World by Joyce Maynard.

  “I would not assign . . . unduly assailed”: This quote comes from my interview with Gordon Lish.

  CODA

  “He began to write . . . that’s different, isn’t it?”: This quote comes from my interview with Russell Hoban.

  On the issue of . . . agents and friends”: These quotes come from my interview with George Plimpton.

  Index

  “A Boy in France,” ref1, ref2, ref3

  A Brighter Day, ref1

  “A Girl I Knew,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Adao, Paul, ref1

  Addams, Charles, ref1

  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The, ref1

  Alfonso XIII, ref1

  Andrews, Dana, ref1

  Angell, Roger, ref1

  As the World Turns, ref1

  Atlantic Monthly, ref1

  Austen, Jane, ref1

  Baker, Milton S., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Baldwin, Jerome Faith, ref1

  Bardo, Robert John, ref1

  Barth, Alan, ref1

  Barthleme, Donald, ref1

  Batchelor, John Calvin, ref1

  Baton Rouge Advocate, ref1

  Beauty and the Beast, ref1

  Behrman, S. N., ref1

  Bell Jar, The, ref1, ref2

  Bellows, Jim, ref1

  Berg, A. Scott, ref1

  Best American Short Stories of 1949, ref1

  “Bitsy,” ref1, ref2

  Blake, William, ref1

  Blaney, Shirlie, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bloom, Harold, ref1

  “Blue Melody,” ref1

  Book-of-the-Month Club News, ref1, ref2, ref3

  “Both Parties Concerned,” ref1, ref2, ref3

  Boulton, Agnes, ref1, ref2, ref3

  “Boy Standing in Tennessee, A,” ref1

  Bradford, Ned, ref1

  Bradley, Omar, ref1

  Brady, James, ref1

  Breit, Harvey, ref1

  Brontë, Emily, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Brown, Andreas, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Brown, Ned, ref1

  Bullock, Turner, ref1

  Bunyan, John, ref1

  Burger, Nash K., ref1

  Burnett, Hallie, ref1

  Burnett, Whit, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26

  Burns, Robert, ref1

  Callagy, Robert, ref1

  Campbell, Frank, ref1

  Capote, Truman, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Carroll, Lewis, ref1

  Casablanca, ref1

  Catcher in the Rye, The, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36, ref37, ref38

  Caldwell, Taylor, ref1

  Chambrun, Jacques, ref1

  Chaplin, Charlie, ref1, ref2

  Chapman, Mark David, ref1

  Charques, R. D., ref1

  Cheever, John, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Chekhov, Anton, ref1

  “Children’s Echelon, The,” ref1

  Christian Science Monitor, ref1

  Churchill, Winston, ref1

  Claremont Daily Eagle, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Clarkson, Michael, ref1, ref2

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, ref1

  College English, ref1

  Collier’s, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  Complete Uncollected Stories of J. D. Salinger, The, ref1

  Congdon, Don, ref1

  Connelly, Steve, ref1

  Conrad, Joseph, ref1

  Cooper, Gary, ref1

  Cosmopolitan, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Crack-Up, The, ref1

  Cranach, Lucas, ref1

  Crossed Sabres, ref1

  Crowther, Bosley ref1

  Crying of Lot 49, The, ref1

  Culligan, Glendy, ref1

  Dancing in the End Zone, ref1

  “Daughter of the Late Great Man, The,” ref1, ref2

  “De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period,” ref1, ref2

  De Niro, Robert, ref1

  Dean, James, ref1

  Deitzler, Richard, ref1, ref2

  Delahanty, Timothy, ref1

  DeLillo, Don, ref1, ref2

  DeVries, Peter, ref1

  Dickins, Charles, ref1

  Didion, Joan, ref1, ref2

  Dodge, Carlotta Saint-Gaudens, ref1, ref2

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, ref1

  Douglas, Jean Stewart, ref1

  Douglas, Robert Langton, ref1

  “Down at the Dinghy,” ref1, ref2

  Dynasty, ref1

  Edward VIII, ref1

  Eisenberg, Lee, ref1

  Eisenhower, Dwight, ref1

  “Elaine,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Elfin, Mel, ref1

  Eliot, John, ref1

  Ellis, Bret Easton, ref1, ref2

  “Entropy,” ref1

  Eppes, Betty, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Epstein, Julius, ref1

  Epstein, Leslie, ref1

  Epstein, Philip, ref1

  Erskine, Albert, ref1

  Esquire, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Fadiman, Clifton, ref1

  Faison, William, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Faulkner, William, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Ferrell, Dorothy, ref1

  Ferrell, James T., ref1

  Fiction Writer’s Handbook, A, ref1

  Field of Dreams, ref1, ref2

  55 Stories, ref1

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Flaubert, Gustave, ref1, ref2

  Foley, Martha, ref1

  For Esmé—With Love and Squalor, ref1, ref2, ref3

  “For Esmé—With Love and Squalor,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  “For Rupert—With No Regrets,” ref1

  Fosburgh, Lacey, ref1, ref2

  Foster, Jodie, ref1, ref2

  Franco, Francisco, ref1

  Frankland, Arthur J., ref1

  Frankland, Elizabeth K., ref1

  Franny and Zooey, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  “Franny,” ref1, ref2

  French, Warren, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Garbo, Greta, ref1

  Gaudrault, Gerard, ref1

  Gibbs, Woolcott, ref1

  Gill, Brendan, ref1

  Giroux, Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Give Me the World, ref1

  Glassmoyer, Frances, ref1

  “Go See Eddie,” ref1

  Goldwyn, Samuel, ref1, ref2

  Gonder, Richard, ref1

  Good Housekeeping, ref1, ref2

  Goodman, Ann L., ref1

  Gravity’s Rainbow, ref1

  Great Gatsby, The, ref1, ref2

  “Greenberg, John,” ref1

  Grobel, Lawrence, ref1

  Guardian, ref1

  Guiding Your Child to a More Creative Life, ref1

  Hadley, Leila, ref1

  Hamilton, Hamish, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12

  Hamilton, Ian, ref1, ref2

  Hand, Learned, ref1

  “Hang of It, The,” ref1, ref2, ref3

  Hapworth 16, 1924, ref1

  “Hapworth 16, 1924,” ref1, ref2

  Harper’s, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Harper’s Bazaar, ref1

  Hart, Bret, ref1

  Hartt, J. N., ref1

  Havem
ann, Ernest, ref1

  Hayward, Susan, ref1

  Head, Edith, ref1

  “Heart of the Broken Story, The,” ref1

  Heath, Samuel, ref1

  Heinemann, William, ref1, ref2

  Heiserman, Arthur, ref1

  Heller, Joseph, ref1

  Hellman, Lillian, ref1

  Hemingway, Ernest, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Henry, Q., ref1, ref2

  Here at the New Yorker, ref1

  Heyen, Anabel, ref1

  Highet, Gilbert, ref1

  Hill, Franklin, ref1

  Hinckley, John, ref1, ref2

  Hitler, Adolf, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Hoban, Esmé, ref1

  Hoban, Phoebe, ref1

  Hoban, Russell, ref1, ref2

  Hoffman, Harry, ref1

  Holiday, Billie, ref1

  Honan, William H., ref1

  Hoover, J. Edgar, ref1

  Hotchner, A. E., ref1, ref2

  Howe, Irving, ref1

  Hughes, Barnard, ref1

  “I’m Crazy,” ref1, ref2

  In Search of J. D. Salinger, ref1

  “Inverted Forest, The,” ref1, ref2, ref3

  Iowa English, ref1

  J. D. Salinger: A Writing Life, ref1

  “J. D. Salinger: Some Crazy Cliff,” ref1

  Jack the Giant Killer, ref1

  Jackson, Shirley, ref1

  James, Henry, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Johnson, Burnace Fitch, ref1

  Jones, Ernest, ref1, ref2

  Jones, James Earl, ref1

  Journey’s End, ref1, ref2

  Joyce, Elaine, ref1, ref2

  Joyce, James, ref1

  “Just Before the War with the Eskimos,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Kafka, Franz, ref1, ref2

  Kakutani, Michiko, ref1

  Kaysen, Susanna, ref1

  Keats, John, ref1

  Kennedy, John F., ref1

  Kennedy Jr., John F., ref1

  Kennedy’s Children, ref1

  Kermode, Frank, ref1

  Kidman, Nicole, ref1

  Kierkegaard, Soren, ref1

  Kierstead, Mary D., ref1, ref2

  King, Billie Jean, ref1

  Kinsella, W. P., ref1, ref2

  Kosner, Edward, ref1, ref2

  Krim, Seymour, ref1

  Lady of Letters, ref1

  Landon, Alfred, ref1

  Lardner, Ring, ref1

  “Last and the Best of the Peter Pans, The,” ref1

  “Last Day of the Last Furlough,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Lathbury, Roger, ref1, ref2

  “Laughing Man, The,” ref1, ref2

  Laver, Rod, ref1

  Lee, Harper, ref1

  Leigh, Vivien, ref1

  Lennon, John, ref1

  Lennon, Sean, ref1

  Leval, Pierre N., ref1

  Life, ref1

  Lincoln, Abraham, ref1

  Lish, Becky, ref1

  Lish, Gordon, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Lobrano, Gus, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  Loeb, William, ref1

  Lolita, ref1

  “Long Debut of Lois Taggett, The,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Longstreth, T. Morris, ref1

  Looking Back, ref1

  Lorca, Federico Garcia, ref1

  Lost Horizon, ref1

  Lowell, Robert, ref1, ref2

  “Low-Lands,” ref1

  Lundegaard, Karen, ref1

  Lunts, the, ref1

  Machell, Roger, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Madame Bovary, ref1

  Mademoiselle, ref1, ref2

  “Magic Foxhole, The,” ref1

  Mailer, Norman, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Mainstream, ref1

  Manchester Union Leader, ref1

  Manhattan: Stories from the Heart of a Great City, ref1

  Mao II, ref1

  Marcus, Carol, ref1

  Maxwell, William, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  Maynard, Fredelle, ref1

  Maynard, Joyce, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Maynard, Max, ref1

  McCarten, John, ref1

  McCarthy, Joseph, ref1

  McCarthy, Mary, ref1, ref2

  McCullers, Carson, ref1, ref2

  Melville, Herman, ref1

  Miller, James E., ref1

  Minor, Roger, ref1

  Mosher, John, ref1, ref2

  Mr. Merlin, ref1

  Mr. Skeffington, ref1

  Murray, Elizabeth, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Murray, Gloria, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Mussolini, Benito, ref1, ref2

  My Foolish Heart, ref1, ref2

  My Sister Sam, ref1

  Nabokov, Vladimir, III, ref1

  Nation, The, ref1, ref2

  National Geographic, ref1

  National Review, ref1

  Nelson, Ethel, ref1, ref2

  New Republic, ref1

  New World Writing, ref1

  New York Herald-Tribune, ref1

  New York Post, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  New York Times, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14

  New York Times Book Review, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  New York Times Magazine, ref1, ref2, ref3

  New Yorker, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36, ref37, ref38, ref39, ref40, ref41, ref42, ref43, ref44, ref45, ref46, ref47, ref48, ref49, ref50, ref51

  Newman, Carol Montgomery, ref1

  Newman, Jon O., ref1

  Newsweek, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Niagara Falls Review, ref1

  Nikhilananda, Swami, ref1

  Nine Stories, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Ober, Harold, ref1, ref2

  Oberon, Merle, ref1

  Observer Weekend Review, ref1, ref2

  Observer, The (London), ref1

  “Ocean Full of Bowling Balls, An,” ref1, ref2, ref3

  O’Hara, John, ref1

  Olding, Dorothy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12

  Olivier, Lawrence, ref1, ref2

  Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, ref1

  “Once a Week Won’t Kill You,” ref1, ref2, ref3

  One Life to Live, ref1

  O’Neill. Eugene, ref1

  O’Neill, Oona, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Ono, Yoko, ref1

  Oswald, Lee Harvey, ref1

  Out of Africa, ref1

  Oxenberg, Catherine, ref1

  Paris Review, ref1

  Paul, Marcia B., ref1, ref2

  “Paula,” ref1

  Perelman, S. J., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  “Perfect Day for Bananafish, A,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  “Personal Notes on an Infantryman,” ref1, ref2

  Plath, Sylvia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Plimpton, George, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Presley, Elvis, ref1

  “Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes,” ref1, ref2

  Priestley, J. B., ref1

  Prize Stories of 1949, ref1

  Proust, Marcel, ref1

  Pynchon, Thomas, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Raisins and Almonds, ref1

  Reagan, Ronald, ref1, ref2

  Reynal, Eugene, ref1

  Rilke, Rainer Maria, ref1

  Rimbaud, Arthur, ref1

  Robson, Mark, ref1

  Roeder, Bill, ref1

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., ref1, ref2, ref3

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p; Rose, Stuart, ref1, ref2

  Rosenbaum, Ron, ref1

  Ross, Harold, ref1

  Ross, Lillian, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Rutan, Waldemar Ivan, ref1

  Sacramento Bee, ref1

  Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, ref1, ref2

  Salinger, Betsy Becker, ref1

  Salinger, Claire Douglas, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16

  Salinger, Colleen O’Neill, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Salinger, Doris, ref1, ref2

  Salinger, Gannon, ref1

  Salinger, Margaret Ann (Peggy), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Salinger, Manam (Mane Jillich), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Salinger, Matthew Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Salinger, Pierre, ref1

  Salinger, Simon, ref1

  Salinger, Solomon, ref1, ref2

  Salinger, Sylvia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  San Francisco Chronicle, ref1

  Saturday Evening Post, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  Saturday Night Live, ref1

  Schaeffer, Rebecca, ref1

  Schuman, Jerome, ref1, ref2

  Schwartz, Jonathan, ref1

  “Scratchy Needle on a Phonograph Record,” ref1

  Seventeen, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Sexton, Anne, ref1

  “Seymour: An Introduction,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Shakespeare, William, ref1

  Shaw, Irwin, ref1

  Shawn, William, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Sherriff, R. C., ref1

  Shoeless Joe, ref1, ref2

  Short Story Masterpieces, ref1

  6 Rms. Riv Vu., ref1

  “Slight Rebellion Off Madison,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  “Soft-Boiled Sergeant,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Soho Weekly News, ref1

  Soroyan, William, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Spectator, ref1

  Stag, ref1

  Stalin, Joseph, ref1

  Starbuck, George, ref1

  Steinmetz, Charles, ref1

  Stern, James, ref1

  Stevenson, Robert Lewis, ref1

  Story, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13

  Story Jubilee: 33 Years of Story, ref1, ref2

  Stram, Hank, ref1

  “Stranger, The,” ref1

  Streitfeld, David, ref1

  Stuart, Jesse, ref1

  Sum of Us, The, ref1

  “Survivors, The,” ref1

  Swan Lake, ref1

  Sylvia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Tarkington, Booth, ref1

 

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