Salinger

by David Shields

Ian Hamilton was a founder of the influential British poetry magazines the Review and the New Review. The author of several books of poetry, including The Visit and Sixty Poems, he wrote biographies of Robert Lowell, Matthew Arnold, and J. D. Salinger, as well as Against Oblivion: Some Lives of the Twentieth-Century Poets. He died in 2001.

  Alex Hanson is a reporter for the West Lebanon, New Hampshire, Valley News.

  Howard M. Harper, the author of Desperate Faith: A Study of Bellow, Salinger, Mailer, Baldwin, and Updike, died in 1991.

  David Victor Harris was a leader of Students for a Democratic Society during the 1960s. Married to Lacey Fosburgh from 1975 until her death in 1993, he is the author of the books Dreams Die Hard and Our War: What We Did in Vietnam and What It Did to Us.

  Ihab Hassan, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, is the author of Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel and The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature.

  Ernest Havemann was a journalist for such publications as Life magazine and the author of several books on psychology and society. He died in 1995.

  Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is the author of numerous novels and stories, including A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises. He committed suicide in 1961.

  Seán Hemingway, the grandson of Ernest Hemingway, is the Greek and Roman art curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is the editor of Hemingway on Hunting and Hemingway on War.

  Anabel Heyen was a classmate of J. D. Salinger at Ursinus College, during the 1938–39 academic year.

  Granville Hicks, a literary critic, was the author of The Great Tradition: An Interpretation of American Literature Since the Civil War and the novel Behold Trouble. He wrote for a variety of publications, including the New Republic and the Nation. He died in 1982.

  Phoebe Hoban, named after the J. D. Salinger character Phoebe Caulfield, is the author of Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art and a contributor to the New York Times and New York magazine.

  Russell Hoban was an illustrator and the author of a series of children’s and young adult books, including The Mouse and the Child, and the novel Riddley Walker. He died in 2011.

  Will Hochman is the co-editor of Letters to J. D. Salinger.

  William H. Honan, a longtime reporter for the New York Times, is the author of Treasure Hunt.

  A. E. Hotchner, a friend of J. D. Salinger in the late 1940s and longtime friend of Ernest Hemingway, is the author of Papa Hemingway, King of the Hill, and many other books.

  Irving Howe, a literary and cultural critic, is the author of numerous books, including World of Our Fathers. He died in 1993.

  Mark Howland is a teacher at the Tabor Academy in Massachusetts.

  David Huddle is a professor and fiction writer who served in the United States Army from 1964 to 1967.

  Hillel Italie is an Associated Press reporter.

  Harvey Jason is a co-owner of Mystery Pier Books, a rare books store in West Hollywood.

  Burnace Fitch Johnson is the former town clerk of Cornish, New Hampshire.

  Elliot Johnson was a lieutenant in the 4th Infantry Division during World War II.

  Colonel Gerden F. Johnson wrote the history of the U.S. Army’s 12th Infantry Regiment in World War II.

  Charisse Jones is a national correspondent for USA Today.

  Jack Jones, the author of Let Me Take You Down, a biography of Mark David Chapman, is a journalist.

  Michiko Kakutani is the lead book critic for the New York Times; she won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.

  Isa Kapp was a literary critic.

  Alfred Kazin was an influential New York literary critic and author of many books, including New York Jew, A Writer’s America, and Writing Was Everything. He died in 1998.

  John Keenan, who served with Salinger in the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) during World War II, was chief of New York City detectives until his retirement in 1978.

  Alex Kershaw is the author of three books on World War II—The Bedford Boys, The Longest Winter, and The Few: The American “Knights of the Air” Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain—as well as biographies of Robert Capa and Jack London.

  Werner Kleeman served with J. D. Salinger in World War II. He is the author of From Dachau to D-Day.

  Seymour Krim was an author and critic. He wrote the books Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer, Manhattan, Stories of a Great City, and Maugham the Artist. He died in 1989.

  Chris Kubica is the co-editor of Letters to J. D. Salinger.

  Thomas Kunkel is the author of Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the New Yorker and Letters from the Editor: The New Yorker’s Harold Ross.

  Richard Lacayo is a writer for Time.

  Roger Lathbury is a professor at George Mason University and proprietor of Orchises Press, which was scheduled, several times during the late 1990s, to publish “Hapworth 16, 1924” as a book.

  John Leggett is the author of Ross and Tom: Two American Tragedies and a biography of William Saroyan. He was an editor and publicity director at Houghton Mifflin from 1950 to 1960 and an editor at Harper & Row from 1960 to 1967.

  John Lennon was a member of the Beatles who went on to release several solo albums before being assassinated in 1980.

  Pierre N. Leval was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

  Paul Levine was a literary critic.

  Jon E. Lewis is a historian and author whose books include The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II: Over 200 First-Hand Accounts from the Six Years That Tore the World Apart.

  Gordon Lish is a novelist, former book editor at Knopf, and former fiction editor at Esquire; he wrote a story in 1977 initially rumored to be by J. D. Salinger.

  Gus Lobrano was a fiction editor at the New Yorker who edited many of Salinger’s short stories that appeared in the magazine.

  T. Morris Longstreth was a critic at the Christian Science Monitor and a novelist. He wrote a series of novels on the Adirondack region, including Mac of Placid.

  Arnold H. Lubasch was a reporter for the New York Times.

  Leila Hadley Luce was a travel writer, journalist, and philanthropist; her books include A Journey with Elsa Cloud and Give Me the World. A onetime girlfriend of J. D. Salinger, she died in 2009.

  James Lundquist is the author of J. D. Salinger, a work of literary criticism.

  Stephan Lynn operated on John Lennon following his shooting by Mark David Chapman. He is the emergency room director at St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital in New York City.

  John McCarten was a writer for the New Yorker during the 1930s.

  Mary McCarthy wrote novels, memoirs, and literary criticism, including, in 1962, the influential “J. D. Salinger’s Closed Circuit.” She died in 1989.

  Michael McDermott is a photographer who twice photographed J. D. Salinger.

  Julie McDermott resides in Cornish, New Hampshire, and works at a grocery store in Hanover, New Hampshire.

  Edwin McDowell was a reporter for the New York Times. He died in 2007.

  Bradley R. McDuffie is the author of the essay “For Ernest, with Love and Squalor: the Influence of Ernest Hemingway on J. D. Salinger.”

  Robert D. McFadden, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is a longtime reporter for the New York Times.

  Geraldine McGowan is a freelance writer and editor living in Boston.

  Charles McGrath, a former editor of the New Yorker, is a writer for the New York Times.

  Cathleen McGuigan is a senior editor and writer at Newsweek.

  Jesse McKinley is a writer on culture for the New York Times.

  John C. McManus, a military consultant to this book, is a professor of U.S. military history at Missouri University of Science and Technology. The official historian for the U.S. Army’s 7th Infantry Regiment, he is the author of many books on military history, including The Americans at Normandy and, most recently, Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through I
raq.

  Larissa MacFarquhar is a staff writer for the New Yorker.

  Norman Mailer is the author of many books, including Executioner’s Song and Armies of the Night, both of which won the Pulitzer Prize. He died in 2007.

  Janet Malcolm is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of several books.

  Marsha Malinowski is an expert in the books and manuscripts department of Sotheby’s.

  Jay Martin, a professor at Claremont McKenna University, is the author of Who Am I This Time: Uncovering the Fictive Personality.

  Anne Marple was a literary critic, writing for such publications as the New Republic.

  Sergeant Ralph G. Martin served in World War II, writing for Stars and Stripes and Yank.

  Carol Matthau, a childhood friend of Oona O’Neill, was married to William Saroyan, then to Walter Matthau. The author of the memoir Among the Porcupines, she died in 1978.

  Herbert Mayes, an editor at Good Housekeeping and McCall’s, died in 1987.

  William Maxwell was a fiction editor at the New Yorker from 1936 to 1976 and author of several works of fiction, including the National Book Award-winning novel So Long See You Tomorrow. He died in 2000.

  Joyce Maynard, who lived with J. D. Salinger in the early 1970s, is the author of many novels, including To Die For, and a memoir, At Home in the World.

  Ved Mehta was a staff writer at the New Yorker for more than thirty years. He has written numerous books about India.

  Ib Melchior is a Danish writer and filmmaker.

  J. Reid Meloy is a forensic psychologist specializing in stalkers and assassins.

  Louis Menand is a professor at Harvard University, a critic at the New Yorker, and the author of The Metaphysical Club, which received the Pulitzer Prize.

  Robert E. Merriam was an army captain during World War II and later became a politician who served in various government positions. He wrote Dark December: The Full Account of the Battle of the Bulge.

  Stephen Metcalf is a writer for Slate magazine.

  Nicholas Meyer is the writer/director of three Star Trek films; he also wrote and directed Time After Time.

  Charles Meyers served in the Counter Intelligence Corps during World War II.

  Edward G. Miller served in the army from 1980 to 2000. He is the author of A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hürtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944–1945.

  Jean Miller met J. D. Salinger in 1949 and had a relationship with him for the next six years.

  Michael Mitchell designed the original cover of The Catcher in the Rye.

  Paul L. Montgomery was a reporter for the New York Times.

  Rick Moody is the author of several novels, including The Ice Storm.

  David Moore was an official at the YMCA who served with Mark David Chapman at an Arkansas camp for the resettlement of Vietnamese refugees in the late 1970s.

  Deborah Dash Moore is the author of G.I. Jews and other books and articles on Jewish culture and history. She teaches at the University of Michigan, where she serves as director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.

  Dinty Moore is a writer, the editor of Creative Nonfiction, and an English professor at Ohio University. His books include Between Panic and Desire.

  George Morgan was a sergeant in the 22nd Infantry Regiment during the battle of Hürtgen Forest.

  Mack Morriss was an army sergeant and war correspondent for Yank magazine during World War II.

  Joe Moses was a lieutenant in the United States Army during World War II.

  John Mosher was a longtime writer and editor at the New Yorker.

  Bruce F. Mueller, who lives in San Francisco, is a Salinger scholar.

  Elizabeth Murray, whose brother was a classmate of J. D. Salinger at Valley Forge Military Academy, was an early encourager of Salinger’s literary ambitions.

  Gloria Murray is the daughter of Elizabeth Murray and the author of a biography of Oona O’Neill.

  Debs Myers was a war correspondent during World War II.

  Ethel Nelson, who resides in Cornish, New Hampshire, was nanny to J. D. Salinger’s children; she met him while attending Windsor High School in the early 1950s. Nelson and Salinger knew each other over many decades.

  Jay Neugeboren is the author of over a dozen books, including Imagining Robert, The Stolen Jew, and Before My Life Began.

  Jon O. Newman is an American Federal Appeals Court judge. He has served on the U.S Second Circuit Court of Appeals since 1979.

  Sarah Norris’s great-grandmother was Elizabeth Murray, who befriended Salinger; Norris is now a writer who lives in Nashville.

  Edward Norton is a film and stage actor, writer, and director, known for roles in films such as American History X, Fight Club, and The Bourne Legacy.

  Peter Norton is a computer programmer.

  Cyrus Nowrasteh is the writer/director of The Day Reagan Was Shot and the writer of The Path to 9/11 and other TV miniseries.

  Ken Oakley was a British naval commando who landed on Sword Beach in the first wave on D-Day and later chaired the Royal Naval Commando Association. He died on October 25, 2007.

  Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than forty novels; her novel them won the National Book Award.

  Dorothy Olding was Salinger’s literary agent for fifty years.

  Colleen O’Neill, a nurse and award-winning quilter, was married to J. D. Salinger from 1988 until his death in 2010.

  Oona O’Neill, the daughter of Eugene O’Neill, dated J. D. Salinger until his entry into the U.S. Army. She married Charlie Chaplin, had eight children, and died in 1991.

  Cynthia Ozick is an essayist, short story writer, and novelist. Her books include The Messiah of Stockholm, The Blue Shawl, What Henry James Knew, and The Din in the Head: Essays.

  Arthur J. Pais is a New York–based freelance writer, editor, and journalism teacher. He writes regularly for India Today, Economic Times, and Far Eastern Economic Review.

  Alton Pearson served as a corporal in the 12th Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division during World War II.

  S. J. Perelman was a humorist, screenwriter, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, and author of over twenty books. He died in 1979.

  Marc Peyser is the author of First Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

  Gina Piccalo is a reporter with the Los Angeles Times.

  Joyce Burrington Pierce is a resident of Windsor, Vermont.

  Jose de M. Platanopez was a resident of Houston, Texas, who wrote a letter to the New York Times Book Review criticizing J. D. Salinger’s Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.

  George Plimpton was the editor of the Paris Review until his death in 2003. He published an account of Betty Eppes’s 1980 interview with J. D. Salinger.

  Katha Pollitt is an American poet, essayist, and critic. She writes the “Subject to Debate” column for the Nation and is the author of Antarctic Traveller, a poetry collection that won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983.

  Charles Poore was a book critic for the New York Times.

  Vincent Powell was a sergeant in the 237th Engineer Combat Battalion during World War II.

  Orville Prescott was a book critic for the New York Times. He died in 1996.

  Ernie Pyle was a correspondent during World War II who died in Okinawa in April 1945.

  Judy Quinn is an artist from Kenya who now lives in the United Sates.

  Nancy Ralston was a literary critic.

  Sri Ramakrishna was a Hindu guru in India who was born in 1836 and died in 1886.

  Russell Reeder served as a colonel and commander of the 12th Infantry Regiment in World War II at the time of the D-Day invasion. After being severely wounded, he wrote many books on the military and war. He died in 1998.

  David Remnick is the editor of the New Yorker. He is the author of Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, which won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize.

  Mordecai Richler was a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, a
nd essayist. His books include The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, for which he wrote the Academy Award–nominated screenplay, and Barney’s Version. He died in 2001.

  General Matthew Ridgway commanded U.S. paratroopers during World War II and later commanded Allied troops in the Korean War.

  David Roderick, who was a staff sergeant in the 4th Infantry Division, became a teacher and high school football coach. The author of Deeds Not Words, an unpublished history of the 22nd Infantry Regiment, he died in 2007.

  John Romano is a screenwriter.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt was the thirty-second president of the United States.

  Ron Rosenbaum is a writer for the New York Observer and the author of Explaining Hitler and The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms.

  Noah Rosenberg is a reporter for the Queens (N.Y.) Courier.

  Lillian Ross is an American journalist and author who has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1949. She was a longtime friend of J. D. Salinger.

  Philip Roth, an American novelist, is the author of such novels as Portnoy’s Complaint, The Human Stain, and American Pastoral, He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

  Louise Roug is a reporter with the Los Angeles Times.

  S. J. Rowland was a columnist at the Christian Science Monitor.

  Howard Ruppel, a World War II veteran, is the chancellor and academic dean of the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.

  Ted Russell is a former photographer for Life.

  Doris Salinger, J. D. Salinger’s sister and a longtime buyer at Bloomingdale’s, died in 2001.

  Margaret Salinger, the daughter of J. D. Salinger, is the author of a memoir, Dream Catcher. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brandeis University, she received a master’s degree in Management Studies from Oxford University and studied at the Harvard University Divinity School.

  Matthew Salinger, the son of J. D. Salinger, is an actor and theater producer. He appeared in What Dreams May Come and on episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He produced the award-winning play The Syringa Tree in 2000.

  Aram Saroyan is a poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist, and playwright. His books include Trio: Portrait of an Intimate Friendship—Oona Chaplin, Carol Matthau, Gloria Vanderbilt.