This book consists primarily of interviews with more than 200 people, dozens of whom are authors who not only spoke to us at length about their subjects of expertise but also read aloud on camera passages from their work. As a result, certain passages in this book are, with the authors’ permission, combinations of oral testimony and written source.
In order to provide the reader with as complete account as possible, we also quoted from published sources in cases where the individual either was deceased or did not consent to an interview. In a number of these cases, we obtained special permission from the copyright holder.
“I landed on Utah Beach”: J. D. Salinger, “Backstage with Esquire,” Esquire, October 1945.
“I landed on D-Day”: Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 53.
“On the evening prior”: Able Seaman Ken Oakley, quoted in Max Arthur, Forgotten Voices of World War II, p. 304.
“Jerry was just a nice”: Werner Kleeman, quoted in Richard Firstman, “Werner Kleeman’s Private War,” The New York Times, November 11, 2007.
“I guess about 3 a.m.”: John Keenan, quoted in “Voices from the Battlefront: [Nassau and Suffolk Edition 1],” Newsday, May 29, 1994.
“Shells were flying over our”: Werner Kleeman, quoted in D-Day Plus 40 Years, anchored by Tom Brokaw, 1984.
“The battleships were firing at”: John Keenan, quoted in “Voices from the Battlefront: [Nassau and Suffolk Edition 1]” Newsday, May 29, 1994.
“The waves were pitching the”: Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day, p. 285.
“The boats were going round”: Private Ralph Della-Volpe, quoted in Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day, p. 285.
“So did many others”: Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day, p. 285.
“The beach at Utah Beach”: Staff Sergeant David Roderick, Utah Beach Normandy June 6, 1944.
“ ‘Get ready!’ the coxswain shouted”: Private Albert Sohl, quoted in “From Utah Beach to the Hedgerows,” Military History, June 2004.
“The men felt their”: Colonel Gerden F. Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II, p. 58.
“For the first time I”: General Matthew Ridgway, quoted in Clay Blair, Ridgway’s Paratroopers, p. 62.
“Never before in my life”: Captain George Mayberry, quoted in Russell Miller, Nothing Less Than Victory: The Oral History of D-Day, p. 365.
“Once we were on the”: Werner Kleeman and Elizabeth Uhlig, From Dachau to D-Day, Marble House Editions, 2006, p. 90.
“The 4th Division’s entire”: Joseph Balkoski, Utah Beach: The Amphibious Landing and Airborne Operations on D-Day, June 6, 1944, p. 184.
“We come in twenty minutes”: J. D. Salinger, “The Magic Foxhole,” unpublished story, Story magazine archive, Firestone Library, Princeton University.
“Our team rushed out of”: Private Ray A. Mann, quoted in Peter Liddle, D-Day, by Those Who Were There, 2004.
“I had seen many terrible”: John Clark, quoted in Robert O. Babcock, War Stories: Utah Beach to Pleiku, p. 123.
“Following the breakout”: Colonel Gerden F. Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II, p. 151.
“Colonel Russell ‘Red’ Reeder”: Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day, p. 286.
“The Germans had flooded”: Colonel Russell “Red” Reeder, quoted in Joseph Balkoski, Utah Beach, p. 236.
“In choosing their [defensive] positions”: Colonel Gerden F. Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II, p. 120.
“Bodies were lying in a”: Clyde Stodghill, quoted in Robert O. Babcock, War Stories: Utah Beach to Pleiku, p. 205.
“We ran into elements”: Colonel Gerden F. Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II, p. 62.
“Happy Birthday to me, 22”: David Roderick, Utah Beach Normandy June 6, 1944.
“During the days that followed”: Bill Garvin, quoted in Robert O. Babcock, War Stories: Utah Beach to Pleiku, p. 123.
“It was at the hedgerows”: Private Albert Sohl, quoted in “From Utah Beach to the Hedgerows” Military History, June 2004.
“While we were in our position”: Corporal Alton Pearson, quoted in John C. McManus, The Deadly Brotherhood: The American Combat Soliders in World War II, p. 134.
“During the bombing, some German”: Paul Fussell, The Boys’ Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–1945, p. 51.
“We were surrounded”: Lieutenant Elliot Johnson, quoted in Studs Terkel, The Good War, p. 259.
“While we were being mortared”: Captain John Sim, quoted in Max Arthur, Forgotten Voices of World War II, p. 327.
“The Air Corps finally smartened”: J. D. Salinger, “The Magic Foxhole” unpublished story, Story magazine archive, Firestone Library, Princeton University.
“After much discussion Lt. Everett”: Lieutenant Joe Moses, letter to Colonel Russell “Red” Reeder, November 1945.
“[They] made the enemy pay”: Captain Frank P. Burk, 4th Infantry Division combat interview.
“As we went into”: Colonel Gerden F. Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II, p. 82.
“Our job was support for”: John Keenan, quoted in “Voices from the Battlefront: [Nassau and Suffolk Edition 1],” Newsday, May 29, 1994.
“The point of the whole operation”: Paul Fussell, The Boys’ Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945, pp. 40–41.
“Following the bombing and”: Clyde Stodghill, quoted in Robert O. Babcock, War Stories: Utah Beach to Pleiku, p. 206.
“His father, Sol Salinger”: Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger, p. 13.
“So far as the present”: William Maxwell, Book-of-the-Month Club News, midsummer 1953.
“Did mother ever tell you”: Doris Salinger, quoted in Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, pp. 17–18.
“Salinger was vice-president”: Shane Salerno, discussing “FTC Bans Price Fixing by Cheese Companies,” The New York Times, October 5, 1940; “15 Named in Fixing of Cheese Prices,” The New York Times, July 2, 1941; The New York Times, September 7, 1944.
“He wanted to do unconventional”: childhood friend, quoted in Salinger: A Critical and Personal Portrait, ed. Henry Grunwald, p. 11.
“[Salinger] was anything but a”: Ernest Havemann, “The Search for the Mysterious J. D. Salinger: The Recluse in Rye,” Life, November 3, 1961.
“Unlike Zooey and the rest”: John Skow, “Sonny: An Introduction,” Time, September 15, 1961.
“He was interested in dramatics”: Ernest Havemann, “The Search for the Mysterious J. D. Salinger: The Recluse in Rye,” Life, November 3, 1961.
“In 1932, Sol Salinger set”: Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 36.
“His record as a freshman”: Ernest Havemann, “The Search for the Mysterious J. D. Salinger: The Recluse in Rye,” Life, November 3, 1961.
“At the age of fifteen”: William Maxwell, Book-of-the-Month Club News, midsummer 1953.
“Miss Doris Jane Salinger, daughter”: The New York Times, May 19, 1935.
“Jerry’s conversation was frequently laced”: Richard Gonder, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 43.
“One of his classmates at”: James Lundquist, J. D. Salinger, p. 8.
“As literary editor of Crossed”: James Lundquist, J. D. Salinger, p. 8.
“The last parade, our hearts”: J. D. Salinger, 1936 Valley Forge Class Yearbook.
“Salinger spent two years at”: Subhash Chandra, The Fiction of J. D. Salinger, p. 35.
“At Valley Forge”: Shane Salerno, discussing Brett E. Weaver, Annotated Bibliography (1982–2002) of J. D. Salinger, p. 54; and David W. Berry, “Salinger Slept Here,” Philadelphia magazine, October 1991.
“Spent a year in Europe”: J. D. Salinger, Story, November-December 1944, p. 1.
“He lived in Vienna, with”: William Maxwell, Book-of-the-Month Club News, July 1951.
“Leah was the daughter in”: J. D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew,” Good Housekeeping, February 1948.
“When this handsome, suave, and”: Frances Thierolf, quoted in “Biography of J. D. Salinger,” Bloom’s BioCritiques: J. D. Salinger, ed. Harold Bloom, p. 13.
“He felt he had come”: Anabel Heyen, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 50.
“Salinger found an outlet”” Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger, pp. 46–47.
“On returning to America, he”: J. D. Salinger, contributor’s note, “Heart of a Broken Story,” Esquire, September 1941.
“Letter: Dear Mother—You and”: J. D. Salinger, “The Skipped Diploma,” Ursinus Weekly, October 10, 1938.
“Act One: Franklin:—I hate”: J. D. Salinger, “The Skipped Diploma,” Ursinus Weekly, October 17, 1938.
“Mr. X: College feller?”: “The Skipped Diploma,” Ursinus Weekly, December 12, 1938.
“Early one evening, not too”: Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 50.
“He wasn’t what I’d call”: Richard Deitzler, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 50.
“I was in the same”: Charles Steinmetz, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 52.
“He didn’t say goodbye to”: Richard Deitzler, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 53.
“There was one dark-eyed”: Whit Burnett, quoted in Ernest Havemann, “The Search for the Mysterious J. D. Salinger: The Recluse in the Rye,” Life, November 3, 1961.
“Mr. Burnett simply and very”: J. D. Salinger, “A Salute to Whit Burnett,” Fiction Writer’s Handbook, pp. 187-188.
“He was a silent fellow”: Whit Burnett, quoted in Ernest Havemann, “The Search for the Mysterious J. D. Salinger: The Recluse in Rye,” Life, November 3, 1961”.
“In class, one evening, Mr.”: J. D. Salinger, “A Salute to Whit Burnett,” Hallie and Whit Burnett, Fiction Writer’s Handbook, pp. 187–88.
“He suddenly came to life”: Hallie and Whit Burnett, Fiction Writer’s Handbook, p. 105.
“What do you do most”: J. D. Salinger, “The Young Folks,” Story, March-April 1940.
“Edna shifted her position”: J. D. Salinger, “The Young Folks,” Story, March-April 1940.
“In a letter to a friend”: Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger, p. 66.
“ ‘Hey, Carl,’ Holden said”: J. D. Salinger, “Slight Rebellion Off Madison,” The New Yorker, December 21, 1946.
“I knew he’d be a writer”: Oona O’Neill quoted in Patrice Chaplin, Hidden Star: Oona O’Neill Chaplin, p. 175.
“The show consists”: Stork Club regular, quoted in David W. Stowe, “The Politics of Café Society,” The Journal of American History 84, no. 4 (March 1998), pp. 1384–1406.
“Last year I made a rule”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 63.
“Girls. Jesus Christ”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 73.
“Dear Mr. Salinger, I’m sorry”: John Mosher, letter to J. D. Salinger regarding “Fisherman,” March 21, 1941.
“I’ll try a couple more”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Marjorie Sheard, November 18, 1941.
“The United States of America was suddenly”: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, address to Congress, December 8, 1941.
“The young man”: J. D. Salinger, “A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist At All,” Mademoiselle, May 1947.
“Oona O’Neill, No. 1 deb”: Bettmann Archive, photograph caption, 1942.
“Not ‘Glamour Girl No.’ ”: Associated Press, photograph caption, 1942.
“There isn’t any night club”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 76.
“That winter Lois did her best”: J. D. Salinger, “The Long Debut of Lois Taggett,” Story, September-October 1942.
“I want to kill”: J. D. Salinger, “Last Day of the Last Furlough,” Saturday Evening Post, July 15, 1944.
“I am of the opinion”: Colonel Milton G. Baker, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 80.
“I have known Jerry Salinger”: Whit Burnett, letter to Colonel Collins, July 1, 1942.
“The sarge almost had an attack”: J. D. Salinger, “The Hang of It,” Collier’s, July 12, 1941.
“I am inside the truck”: J. D. Salinger, “This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise,” Esquire, October 1945.
“Charlie Chaplin was the first”: Lillian Ross, “Moments from Chaplin,” The New Yorker, May 22, 1978.
“I arrived early and on”: Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography, p. 414.
“Just met Charlie Chaplin”: Oona O’Neill, quoted in “Charlie Chaplin & Oona O’Neill,” People magazine, February 12, 1996.
“At first I was afraid”: Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography, p. 414.
“It was a great, great love-affair”: Carol Matthau, quoted in “Charlie Chaplin & Oona O’Neill,” People, February 12, 1996.
“Salinger said terrible things about my being”: Oona O’Neill, quoted in Patrice Chaplin, Hidden Star: Oona O’Neill Chaplin, p. 175.
“Burke, he didn’t stay”: J. D. Salinger, “Soft-Boiled Sergeant,” Saturday Evening Post, April 15, 1944.
“Laughter is one of Charlie’s”: Oona O’Neill, quoted in Time, June 27, 1960.
“[Charlie] made me more mature”: Ibid.
Shane Salerno interview with Michael Clarkson.
“As was standard operating”: Ib Melchior, Case by Case, p. 83.
“You may be ‘baldheaded and’ ”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Paul Fitzgerald, February 10, 1979.
“As long as I live”: Sergeant Ralph G. Martin quoted in Yank: The Story of World War II as Written by the Soldiers, p. 51.
“The people cheered and laughed”: John Worthman, quoted in Robert O. Babcock, War Stories: Utah Beach to Pleiku, p. 255.
“Another of Ernest’s visitors at”: Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, p. 420.
“He found Hemingway”: Ibid.
“Vincent smiled”: J. D. Salinger, “Last Day of the Last Furlough,” The Saturday Evening Post, July 15, 1944.
“Salinger returned to his unit”: Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, p. 420.
“In her memoir Running with”: Bradley R. McDuffie, “When Papa Met Salinger,” Edmonton Journal, July 23, 2010.
“He shared with me a”: Lillian Ross, “The JD Salinger I Knew,” Guardian (UK), December 12, 2010.
“All writers—no matter how”: J. D. Salinger, contributor’s notes for “Down at the Dinghy,” Harper’s, April 1949 [note published in Harper’s, February 1959].
“X threaded his fingers”: J. D. Salinger, “For Esmé—with Love and Squalor,” The New Yorker, April 8, 1950.
“In the years that followed”: Bradley R. McDuffie, “When Papa Met Salinger,” Edmonton Journal, July 23, 2010.
“I’m twenty-five, was born in”: J. D. Salinger, contributor’s note to Story, November–December 1944.
“In those days”: Werner Kleeman, quoted in Noah Rosenberg, “Lifelong Pal Remembers J. D. Salinger,” Queens Courier, February 2, 2010.
“I can’t remember very acutely”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Elizabeth Murray, August 1944.
“I met and have had”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Frances Glassmoyer, August 9, 1944.
“You never saw six-feet-two”: Salinger, letter to Whit Burnett, in Jack R. Sublette, J. D. Salinger: An Annotated Bibliography, 1938–1981.
Shane Salerno interview with Michael McDermott and Ted Russell.
“Just south of Aachen”: Stephen E. Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, p. 167.
“My opinion was, it was”: Werner Kleeman, interview with Bobby Allen Wintermute, Queens College WWII Alumni Veterans Project, March 31, 2009.
“The country was obstacle enough”: Lieutenant George Wilson, If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, 1987, p. 132.
“Added to the natural obstacles”: Major General Raymond G. Barton, 4th Infantry Division combat interview.
“The companies moved through”: Lieutenant Colonel William Gayle, 4th Infantry Division combat interview.
“Higher commanders had regarded”: Colonel Gerden F. Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II, p. 217.
“He [D.B., Holden Caulfield’s”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 140.
“I was a forward observer”: Lieutenant Elliot Johnson, quoted in Studs Terkel, The Good War, p. 246.
“In Hürtgen Forest the 4th”: Lieutenant Colonel William Gayle, 4th Infantry Division combat interview.
“At 1400 hours the battalion commander”: Colonel Gerden F. Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II, p. 203.
“Uh, he [Vincent Caulfield]”: J. D. Salinger, “The Stranger,” Collier’s, December 1, 1945.
“I send you another of”: Louise Bogan, letter to William Maxwell, 1944.
“Dear M, I send”: Ibid.
“On a November night”: Werner Kleeman and Elizabeth Uhlig, From Dachau to D-Day, pp. 97–98.
“Winter brought the conditions”: Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 64.
“One dreary evening”: Werner Kleeman and Elizabeth Uhlig, From Dachau to D-Day, pp. 285–86.
“To this day, Kleeman”: Noah Rosenberg, “Lifelong Pal Remembers J. D. Salinger,” Queens Courier, February 2, 2010.
“I have the feeling you”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Werner Kleeman, 1961.
“We flushed three krauts out”: Colonel Gerden F. Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II, p. 213.
“There were dead bodies all”: First Lieutenant John B. Beach, quoted in Edward G. Miller, A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hürtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945, p. 100.
“God, it was cold”: Lieutenant Colonel Franklin Sibert, quoted in Edward G. Miller, A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hürtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-45, p. 87.
“During the night”: Colonel Gerden F. Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II, p. 221.
“Ernest Hemingway was a correspondent”: Edward G. Miller, 4th Infantry Division combat interview.
“I hadn’t washed or shaved”: Bob Wandesforde, quoted in John McManus, The Deadly Brotherhood, p. 67.
“For those in the know”: Paul Fussell, The Boys’ Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–1945, p. 84.
“Behind them they left”: Sergeant Mack Moriss, Yank: the GI Story of the War, ed. Deb Meyers, p.12.
Barbara Graustark, “Newsmakers,” Newsweek, July 17, 1978.
“There was a film on”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Paul Fitzgerald, February 3, 1960.
“They all said it was”: Martha Gellhorn, The Face of War, p. 145.
“Hitler knew Germany”: Stephen E. Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, p. 184.
“Hitler realized that by remaining”: William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 1090.
“[The 4th] Division”: U.S. Army Historical Division.
“In the first frantic days”: Sergeant Ed Cunningham, quoted in Yank: The Story of World War II as Written by the Soldiers, p. 71.
“The enemy’s plan was simple”: Colonel Gerden F. Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II, p. 231.
“There’s been a complete breakthrough”: Ernest Hemingway, quoted in Stanley Weintraub, 11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944, p. 55.
“The front ran for nearly”: Colonel Gerden F. Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II, p. 230.
“Roaring cannons along an 80-mile front”: Robert E. Merriam, Dark December: The Full Account of the Battle of the Bulge, p. 106.
“It was dark and it”: Paul Fussell, The Boys’ Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–1945, pp. 128–29.
“The initial German attacks rolled”: Colonel Richard Marr, 4th Infantry Division combat interview.
“The experienced German infantry”: Danny S. Parker, The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s Ardennes Offensive, 1944-1945, p. 86.
“The Battle of the Bulge”: John Toland, Battle: The Story of the Bulge, p. xvii.
“To provide the will”: Stephen E. Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, p. 184.
“The Germans had infiltrated to”: Colonel Gerden F. Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II, p. 94.
“My father said that no”: Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 65.
“[A G.I. named] Gordon got ripped”: Private Bob Conroy, quoted in Paul Fussell, Boys’ Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–1945, p. 132.
“The casualties had been hit”: William Montgomery, quoted in Robert O. Babcock, War Stories: Utah Beach to Pleiku, p. 357.
“The enemy hoped to break up”: Colonel Gerden F. Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II, pp. 233–34.
“The Americans used desperate methods”: Stephen E. Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, p. 201.
“On Christmas of ’44, in”: George Knapp, quoted in Robert O. Babcock, War Stories: Utah Beach to Pleiku, p. 355.
“On those days”: Colonel Gerden F. Johnson, History of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment in World War II, p. 309.
“There were half-tracks and”: Martha Gellhorn, The Face of War, p. 146.
“The fundamental reason”: Hanson W. Baldwin, Battles Lost and Won: Great Campaigns of World War II, p. 352.
“The Fighting Fourth Division”: Paul Fitzgerald, unpublished poem.
“The 12th Infantry held”: Colonel Richard Marr 4th Infantry Division combat interview.
“There were many dead and”: Martha Gellhorn, The Face of War, 1988, p. 152.
“The will of the German soldier”: John Toland, Battle: The Story of the Bulge, p. 377.
“I was in the Counter”: Charles Meyers, quoted in Bradley R. McDuffie, “For Ernest, with Love and Squalor: The Influence of Ernest Hemingway on J. D. Salinger,” Hemingway Review, March 22, 2011.
“[When Hemingway took a hotel”: Leicester Hemingway, My Brother, Ernest Hemingway, 4th ed., p. 264.
“Every time it snows”: Bart Hagerman, quoted in John C. McManus, The Deadly Brotherhood: The American Combat Soldiers in World War II, p. 346.
“There are many of the living”: Ernie Pyle, “On Victory in Europe,” draft of a column found on Pyle’s body after he was killed in Ie Shima, reprinted at http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/erniepyle/wartime-columns/on-victory-in-europe/ and http://wwpbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/pyle/europe.html.
“I remember standing next to”: Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 59.
“Exhausted at war’s end, Salinger”: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia, “The Fourth Infantry Division,” http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10006134.
“As a counter-intelligence officer”: Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 55.
“You never really get the”: J. D. Salinger, quoted in Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 55; Jean Miller interview with Shane Salerno.
“The first thing I saw”: Jack Hallett, quoted in The Holocaust Chronicle, p. 609, http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/staticpages/609.html.
“Paul Fitzgerald, Salinger’s close friend”: Shane Salerno, discussing Paul Fitzgerald, letter to the Holocaust Library and Research Center of San Francisco, July 25, 1980; Holocaust Library and Research Center of San Francisco, letter to Paul Fitzgerald, November 14, 1980; Holocaust Library and Research Center of San Francisco, letter to Paul Fitzgerald, February 24, 1981 (letters given to the authors by the Fitzgerald family).
“Salinger told [Whit] Burnett he”: Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 96.
“But now—the sudden vast”: J. D. Salinger, “Elaine,” Story, March–April 1945.
“The National Broadcasting Company delays”: NBC broadcast, May 8, 1945.
“I didn’t want to rehash”: Howard Ruppel, quoted in John C. McManus, The Deadly Brotherhood: The American Combat Soldiers in World War II, p. 346.
“Salinger wound up receiving five”: Eberhard Alsen, discussing Ernest Havemann, “The Recluse in the Rye,” Life magazine, November 3, 1961; Margaret Salinger Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 66; “Enlisted Record and Report of Separation Honorable Discharge, Jerome D. Salinger,” 1945.
“Dear Poppa, I’m writing from”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Ernest Hemingway, undated, 1945.
“To Whom It May Concern”: First Lieutenant A. Raymond Boudreau, CIC letter of recommendation upon honorable discharge, 1945.
“My Aunt [Doris] described Sylvia”: Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 71.
“The trip over was hell”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Paul Fitzgerald, May 24, 1946.
“Sylvia and I separated less”: J. D. Salinger letter to Paul Fitzgerald, November 23, 1946.
“Well. In the first place”: Salinger, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” The New Yorker, January 31, 1948.
“In January 1947”: Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 121.
“We like parts of ‘The Bananafish’ ”: William Maxwell, letter from William Maxwell to Harold Ober, January 22, 1947.
“Did he keep calling you”: J. D. Salinger, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” The New Yorker, January 31, 1948.
“It really seemed to be”: Gay Talese, “Talese on Salinger,” The New York Observer, February 3, 2010.
“ ‘Listen,’ Corinne said”: J. D. Salinger, “The Inverted Forest,” Cosmopolitan, December 1947.
“Half a dozen of [Salinger’s”: Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner, The Fiction of J. D. Salinger, p. 9.
“He must have known the”: Gloria Murray, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 132.
“I don’t know what upset Salinger”: Herbert Mayes, quoted in Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger, p. 104.
“As for me, I signed”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Paul Fitzgerald, April 29, 1948.
“ ‘Stop that,’ Eloise said”: J. D. Salinger, “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut,” The New Yorker, March 20, 1948.
“My work goes along pretty”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Paul Fitzgerald, October 19, 1948.
“Dear Miss Olding”: Gus Lobrano, letter to Dorothy Olding, December 10, 1948.
“Samuel Goldwyn has borrowed”: Thomas Brady, “Miss Hayward Set for Goldwyn Film,” The New York Times, April 2, 1949.
“Goldwyn’s team”: Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 140.
“All of a sudden he [Walt Glass]”: J. D. Salinger, “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut,” The New Yorker, March 28, 1948.
“Eloise (to Walt)”: My Foolish Heart, 1949.
“If you’re interested in movies”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Paul Fitzgerald, August 26, 1949.
“Eloise: The important thing, Lou”: My Foolish Heart, 1949.
“Full of soap opera clichés”: John McCarten, “The Current Cinema,” The New Yorker, January 28, 1950, p. 75, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 141.
“Dear Swanie: as you know”: Jerry Wald, letter to H. L. Swanson, January 25, 1957.
“About halfway to the bathroom”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, pp. 103–4.
“When my college friend Matt”: John Seabrook, “A Night at the Movies,” The New Yorker, February 8, 2010.
Shane Salerno interview with Myles Weber, Paul Alexander, and Michael Silverblatt.
“He won’t take his bathrobe”: J. D. Salinger, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” The New Yorker, January 31, 1948.
“You say you still feel”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Jean Miller, undated.
“Dear Jean, I arrived in”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Jean Miller, March 19, 1949.
“Dear Jean, Yours is the”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Jean Miller, March 28, 1949.
“Over on third base, Mary”: J. D. Salinger, “The Laughing Man,” Nine Stories, 1953.
“I’ve been working steadily”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Jean Miller, April 16, 1949.
“I grew up in this”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Jean Miller, June 3, 1949.
“I planted some vegetables yesterday”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Jean Miller, April 30, 1953.
“You don’t think you’ll”: Ibid.
“What a good girl you are”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Jean Miller, October 5, 1953.
“I was oddly touched”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Jean Miller, undated.
“It still seems completely”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Jean Miller, October 1953.
“[In a letter to Michael”: Sharon Steel, TimeOut New York, March 8, 2010.
“My boyhood was very much”: J. D. Salinger, interview by Shirlie Blaney, Daily Eagle (Claremont, NH), November 13, 1953.
“I’d rather be the catcher”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 173.
“longer, autobiographical piece”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Whit Burnett, 1940.
“I stood there—boy I”: J. D. Salinger, “I’m Crazy,” Collier’s, December 22, 1945.
“I’ve taken a small place”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Gus Lobrano, October 12, 1949.
“During Salinger’s brief stay”: Peter De Vries, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999), p. 137.
“He’d come over and express”: Jon De Vries, quoted in Timothy Dumas, “The Return of Peter De Vries,” Westport Magazine, April 2006.
“I was eating a sandwich”: Robert Giroux, “The Art of Publishing No. 3,” interview by George Plimpton, Paris Review, no. 155 (Summer 2000).
“ ‘Mr. Salinger is here,’ ”: Robert Giroux, ibid.
“Possibly by now you’ve”: Gus Lobrano, letter to J. D. Salinger, January 25, 1951.
“Imprisoned”: Gus Lobrano, January 25, 1951.
“Tactless”: Robert Giroux, “The Art of Publishing No. 3,” interview by George Plimpton, Paris Review, no. 155 (Summer 2000).
“He didn’t like it,”: Robert Giroux, quoted in Al Silverman, The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Publishers, Their Editors and Authors (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008), p. 27.
“Was evidently prudent enough”: Louis Menand, “Holden at Fifty,” The New Yorker, October 1, 2001.
“I can’t explain what I”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 122.
“It means a great deal”: William Maxwell, Book-of-The-Month-Club News, 1951.
“I think writing is a”: J. D. Salinger, Book-of-the-Month-Club News, 1951.
“Anyone who has read”: J. D. Salinger, dust jacket copy, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951.
“J. D. Salinger was born in”: J. D. Salinger, author’s note, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951.
“I seldom care to know”: J. D. Salinger, contributor’s note for “Down at the Dinghy,” Harper’s, April 1949 [note published in Harper’s, February 1959].
“I think, even if I”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 204.
“Here is a novel about”: Paul Engle, Chicago Daily Tribune, July 15, 1951.
“So real it hurts”: Irene Elwood, Los Angeles Times.
“Sponsoring a brilliant, new young”: Clifton Fadiman, , Book-of-the-Month-Club News, July 1951, quoted in James Lundquist, J. D. Salinger, p. 54.
“short story guy”: James Stern, “Aw, the World’s a Crumby Place,” The New York Times Book Review, July 15, 1951.
“The strange, wonderful language”: Nash K. Burger, “Books of the Times; Adolescence Speaking for Itself,” The New York Times, July 16, 1951.
“I was impressed by”: William Faulkner, quoted in Faulkner in the University, ed. Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner, pp. 246–47.
“Have you read The Catcher”: Samuel Beckett, letter to Loly Rosset, November 20, 1953.
“People are always ruining things”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 87.
“I fought alongside him in”: Werner Kleeman, “Lifelong Pal Remembers J. D. Salinger,” The Queens Courier, February 2, 2010.
“I may give [The Catcher”: J. D. Salinger, The New Yorker, December 1951.
“If the teenager as we”: Geoff Pevere, “J. D. Salinger, 91: Literary Giant Lived as Recluse,” The Toronto Star, January 29, 2010.
“Holden Caulfield is the Malcolm”: Jake Gyllenhaal, interviewed by Chelsea Clinton, Interview magazine, February 2003.
“Holden Caulfield”: Andy Rogers, The Veteran Who Is, the Boy Who Is No More.
“The mental health professionals”: Andy Rogers, The Veteran Who Is, the Boy Who Is No More.
“If you sat around there”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 142.
“Salinger’s quarrel”: Andy Rogers, The Veteran Who Is, the Boy Who Is No More.
“When I was really drunk”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 150.
“I’m aware”: J. D. Salinger, unpublished jacket statement, The Catcher in the Rye, 1951.
“Among other things you’ll find”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 189.
“If a body catch a”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 173.
“If a body meet a”: Robert Burns, “Comin thro’ the Rye,” The Catcher in the Rye, p. 178.
“I can be quite sarcastic”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 21.
“One day”: Billy Wilder quoted in Conversations with Salinger, p. 299.
“The goddam movies”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 104.
“Holden Caulfield is not likely”: Nancy C. Ralston, quoted in Peter G. Beidler, A Reader’s Companion to J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, p. 62.
“First published in mid-July”: Pamela Hunt Steinle, In Cold Fear: The Catcher in the Rye Censorship Controversies and Postwar American Character, p. 15.
“In the fall of 1951”: Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 157.
“I was not prepared for”: The wife of an editor, quoted in Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger, p. 124.
“If you want to know”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 134.
“That fall [of 1951], Salinger”: Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, pp. 167–68.
“Dear Mr. Ross, Just to”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Harold Ross, October 6, 1951.
“He escaped some of the publicity”: James Lundquist, J. D. Salinger, p. 27.
“Celebrity is a mask that”: John Updike, Self-Consciousness, p. 252.
“I know he and his sister”: Margaret Salinger interview with WBUR Radio show “The Connection,” September 14, 2000.
“[Salinger’s] 90-acre tract of land”: Paul Alexander, “Cornish, New Hampshire: J. D. Salinger Country,” Travel & Leisure Magazine, April 1999.
“Salinger had bought a small gambrel-roofed cottage”: Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 168.
“That winter [of 1953]”: John Skow, “Sonny: An Introduction,” Time, September 15, 1961.
“We have a date”: S. J. Perelman, Don’t Tread on Me: Selected Letters, p. 144.
“I knew all about him”: Shirlie Blaney, quoted in Ernest Havemann, “The Search for the Mysterious J. D. Salinger: The Recluse in Rye,” Life, November 3, 1961.
“He seemed to be delighted”: Shirlie Blaney, quoted ibid.
“[Joyce Burrington] Pierce was a”: Susan J. Boutwell and Alex Hanson, “J. D. Salinger, Recluse of Cornish, Dies,” Valley News, January 29, 2010.
“My father was a bit leery”: Joyce Burrington Pierce, quoted ibid.
“Finally I decided”: Shirlie Blaney, quoted in Ernest Havemann, “The Search for the Mysterious J. D. Salinger: The Recluse in Rye,” Life, November 3, 1961.
“[Salinger] seems to understand children”: John Wain, “Holden and Huck,” The Observer (London), June 8, 1958, p. 17.
“The best thing, though, in”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 121.
“Leah’s knock on my door”: J. D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew,” Good Housekeeping, February 1948.
“Our page came out once”: Shirlie Blaney, quoted in Ernest Havemann, “The Search for the Mysterious J. D. Salinger: The Recluse in Rye,” Life, November 3, 1961.
“The Windsor High School [paper] came out”: Ernest Havemann, “The Search for the Mysterious J. D. Salinger: The Recluse in Rye,” Life, November 3, 1961.
“During the preparation of”: Claremont Daily Eagle, November 13, 1953.
“Betty Eppes is a reporter”: George Plimpton, quoted in “What I Did Last Summer,” The Paris Review, Summer 1981.
“In her letter to Mr.”: Edwin McDowell, “Publishing: Visit with J. D. Salinger,” The New York Times, September 11, 1981.
“I’ve been writing seriously”: J. D. Salinger, contributor’s note for “Down at the Dinghy,” Harper’s, April 1949 [note published in Harper’s, February 1959].
“I will state this: it”: J. D. Salinger, quoted in Betty Eppes, “What I Did Last Summer,” Paris Review, Summer 1981.
“So far the novels of this war”: J. D. Salinger, “Backstage with Esquire,” Esquire, October 24, 1945, p. 34.
“there is a thin”: George Highet, “New Books: Always Roaming with a Hungry Heart,” Harper’s, June 1953.
“You get off”: J. D. Salinger, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” p. 26.
“the only great”: Ibid., pp. 7–8.
“lose control of” to “see more glass.”: Ibid., pp. 8–10, 14.
“They’re very ordinary-looking” to “through the door”: Ibid., p. 23.
“raving maniac”: Ibid., p. 13.
“the belt” to “Sybil’s hand”: Ibid., p. 19.
“Sybil’s ankles” to “my love”: Ibid., p. 24.
“regiment” to “steady it”: J. D. Salinger, “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut,” pp. 48-49.
“the g.d. war is over”: J. D. Salinger, “For Esmé—with Love and Squalor,” p. 160.
“Why don’t you boys”: J. D. Salinger, “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut,” p. 52.
“husband was stationed” to “something”: Ibid., pp. 33–34.
“air-minded” to “M.P.”: Ibid., pp. 27–28.
“Trenton to New York”: Ibid., pp. 43–44.
“You know what”: Ibid., pp. 44–45.
“Ever cut your” to “cute”: J. D. Salinger, “Just Before the War with the Eskimos,” pp. 62–71.
“bleedin’ like mad”: Ibid., p. 65.
“draft board” to “or something”: Ibid., pp. 72–73.
“lovely—the first”: Ibid., p. 77.
“A few years earlier”: Ibid., p. 82.
“carpenter’s vise”: J. D. Salinger, “The Laughing Man,” p. 87.
“face covered with a”: Ibid., p. 88.
“around the countryside”: Ibid., p. 89.
“deep but pleasantly” to “escape method”: Ibid., pp. 89–90.
“the largest personal” to “face”: Ibid., pp. 90–91.
“best friend”: Ibid., pp. 100–2.
“two and two together” to “hideous features”: Ibid., pp. 102, 108–10.
“beloved Black Wing” to “mask”: Ibid., pp. 109–10.
“in terms of permanently” to “decorously”: J. D. Salinger, “Down at the Dinghy,” pp. 119, 120–24, 130.
“itching imperceptibly” to “lightning”: J. D. Salinger, “For Esmé—with Love and Squalor,” pp. 133–34.
“experience levitation” to “camp”: Ibid., pp. 133–35, 137.
“military-looking” to “sentimental way of life”: Ibid., p. 140, epigraph, pp. 149, 153–55.
“getting better acquainted” to “all over the place”: Ibid., 156–58, 165.
“Home sweet home” to “animal”: J. D. Salinger, “Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes,” pp. 178, 180, 186, 188, 181, 182.
“at best a” to “enamel flowers”: J. D. Salinger, “De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period,” pp. 241, 249–50.
“wear them whenever” to “thousands of times”: J. D. Salinger, “Teddy,” pp. 274, 276, 284, 287, 294.
“in this world” to “fictional characters”: Announcement of Salinger’s death, released by Harold Ober Associates, January 28, 2010.
“In 1966 I was invited”: Pat York, “Catching J. D. Salinger,” The Huffington Post, February 2, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pat-york/catching-jd-salinger_b_446863.html.
“She arrived at the party”: Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 7.
“Her childhood was not one”: Margaret Salinger, “Biographer Margaret Salinger Discusses Her Book on Her Father Author J. D. Salinger,” NBC News Today, September 7, 2000.
“The black sheets and the”: Claire Douglas, quoted in Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 12.
“I’ve had two invitations”: Letter from Salinger to Miller, undated, 1953.
“Uncharacteristically, Salinger threw a party”: John Skow, “Sonny: An Introduction,” Time, September 15, 1961.
“As in any good Scott Fitzgerald tale”: Maxwell Geismar, “The Wise Child and the New Yorker School of Fiction,” in Salinger: A Critical and Personal Portrait, ed. Henry Grunwald, p. 103.
“Lane had sampled his”: J. D. Salinger, “Franny,” The New Yorker, January 29, 1955.
“Alienated from her Ivy League boy friend”: Paul Levine, “J. D. Salinger: The Development of the Misfit Hero,” in J. D. Salinger and the Critics, ed. William F. Belcher and James W. Lee, p. 111.
“ ‘Franny’ is an indictment”: Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 185.
“The Way of a Pilgrim”: James Lundquist, J. D. Salinger, p. 123.
“We must pray unceasingly”: The Way of a Pilgrim, p. 9.
“Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy”: The Way of a Pilgrim, p. 10.
“Stories about his wife”: Henry Grunwald, ed., Salinger: A Critical and Personal Portrait, p. 21.
“Claire Salinger was attracted”: Arthur J. Pais, Rediff, October 27, 2000.
“ ‘You have been chosen’ ”: Paramhansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, p. 355.
“On the train home to Cornish”: Claire Douglas, quoted in Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 91.
“A man may live”: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, translated by Swami Nikhilananda, chapter 20, “Rules for Householders and Monks,” (Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math, West Bengal, India, 1942 and 2006), http://www.belurmath.org/gospel/.
“We did not make love very often”: Claire Douglas, quoted in Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 91.
“Between extreme indifference”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Swami Nikhilananda, 1972.
“The importance of ‘Raise High’ ”: Bruce Mueller and Will Hochman, Critical Companion to J. D. Salinger, p. 279.
“[“Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters”]”: James Lundquist, J. D. Salinger, p. 137.
“[It is] the best”: John Updike, “Anxious Days for the Glass Family,” The New York Times Book Review, September 17, 1961.
“I read a bit from the”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Swami Adiswarananda, 1975.
“ ‘We were up at the Lake”: J. D. Salinger, “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters,” The New Yorker, November 19, 1955.
“In the story of his wedding”: Ihab Hassan, “J. D. Salinger: Rare Quixotic Gesture,” Western Review, Summer 1957.
“Salinger kills Seymour”: Subhash Chandra, The Fiction of J. D. Salinger, p. 144.
“He has learned to live”: Philip Roth, “Writing American Fiction,” Commentary, March 1961, pp. 223–33.
“When he first came”: Roger Angell, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 189.
“Imagine the most phobic man”: Lawrence Weschler, “Mr. Shawn’s New Yorker: For Nearly Forty Years William Shawn Was a World Traveler—of Sorts,” Columbia Journalism Review, March–April 1993.
“ ‘Zooey’ is an interminable,”: Maxwell Geismar, “The Wise Child and the New Yorker School of Fiction,” in Salinger: A Critical and Personal Portrait, ed. Henry Grunwald, p. 105.
“Near the end”: Ernest Havemann, “The Search for the Mysterious J. D. Salinger: The Recluse in Rye,” Life, November 3, 1961.
“In each story”: Alfred Kazin, “J. D. Salinger: Everybody’s Favorite,” The Atlantic Monthly, August 1961.
“The cumulative effect is bright”: S. J. Rowland, “Love Parable,” The Christian Century, October 6, 1961, p. 1464.
“During 1958, Salinger had”: Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 202.
“In letters, he reported”: Phoebe Hoban, “The Salinger File,” New York Magazine, June 15, 1987.
“He was in New York, working”: New Yorker intern quoted in Edward Kosner, “The Private World of J. D. Salinger,” New York Post Magazine, April 30, 1961.
“In ‘Seymour,’ Buddy takes up”: William Wiegand, “The Knighthood of J. D. Salinger,” The New Republic, October 19, 1959.
“It is the idea of compromise”: James Lundquist, J. D. Salinger, p. 142.
“Self-consciousness gives the story”: Granville Hicks, “J. D. Salinger: Search for Wisdom,” Saturday Review, July 25, 1959.
“There are one or two more”: J. D. Salinger, “Seymour: An Introduction,” The New Yorker, June 6, 1959.
“[Since The Catcher in the Rye] Salinger has”: Michael Walzer, “In Place of a Hero,” Dissent, Spring 1960.
“Yet when I first read”: J. D. Salinger, “Seymour: An Introduction,” The New Yorker, June 6, 1959.
“It is ‘woman and gold’ ”: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, translated by Swami Nikhilananda, chapter 7, “The Master and Vijay Goswami,” http://www.belurmath.org/gospel.
“In February 1962 the telephone”: Gordon Lish, “A Fool for Salinger,” Antioch Review, 1986, pp. 408–15, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 221.
“Ever since Jerome David Salinger”: Mel Elfin, “The Mysterious J. D. Salinger. . . His Woodsy, Secluded Life,” Newsweek, May 30, 1960.
“For Salinger, writing”: Ibid.
“Jerry works like a dog”: Bertrand Yeaton, quoted ibid.
“It is sunny at the”: John Skow, “Sonny: An Introduction,” Time, September 15, 1961.
“At one side of the road”: Ernest Havemann, “The Search for the Mysterious J. D. Salinger: The Recluse in Rye,” Life, November 3, 1961.
“He has adopted a T. E.”: George Steiner, “The Salinger Industry,” The Nation, November 14, 1959.
“As nearly as possible”: J. D. Salinger, dedication to Franny and Zooey.
“ ‘Franny’ came out in The New Yorker”: J. D. Salinger, flap copy for Franny and Zooey.
“There are, I am convinced”: Granville Hicks, “J. D. Salinger: Search for Wisdom,” Saturday Review, July 25, 1959.
“Salinger has suffered”: Ernest Havemann, “The Search for the Mysterious J. D. Salinger: The Recluse in Rye,” Life, November 3, 1961.
“The characters of Salinger’s”: John Skow, “Sonny: An Introduction,” Time, September 15, 1961.
“Franny and Zooey is better than anything”: Charles Poore, “Books of The Times,” The New York Times, September 14, 1961.
“Salinger, it bears repeating”: Blake Bailey, Cheever, pp. 300-301.
“Not the least dismaying”: John Updike, “Anxious Days for the Glass Family,” The New York Times Book Review, September 17, 1961.
“What gives”: Joan Didion, “Finally (Fashionably) Spurious,” National Review, November 18, 1961.
“I am sorry to have”: Alfred Kazin, “J. D. Salinger: ‘Everybody’s Favorite,’ ” The Atlantic Monthly, August 1961.
“[Salinger’s] stories read like”: Seymour Krim, “Stung by an Exquisite Gadfly,” The Washington Post, September 17, 1961.
“In spite of the intellectual sponginess”: Isa Kapp, “Salinger’s Easy Victory,” The New Leader, January 8, 1962.
“In Hemingway’s work”: Mary McCarthy, “J. D. Salinger’s Closed Circuit,” Harper’s, October 1962.
“This ‘prose home movie’ ”: Anne Marple, “Salinger’s Oasis of Innocence,” New Republic, September 18, 1961.
“Salinger’s skillful use”: Howard M. Harper Jr., Desperate Faith: A Study of Bellow, Salinger, Mailer, Baldwin, and Updike, p. 94.
“ ‘Seymour: An Introduction’ ”: Orville Prescott, “Books of the Times,” The New York Times, January 28, 1963.
“Both of these stories”: Irving Howe, “More Reflections in the Glass Mirror,” The New York Times Book Review, April 7, 1963.
“I have just finished reading”: Jose de M. Platanopez, “Salinger,” letter to the editor, The New York Times Book Review, May 26, 1963.
“It is necessary to say”: Norman Mailer, “Some Childern of the Goddess: Further Evaluations of the Talent in the Room,” Esquire, July 1963.
“I sent over Shawn’s letter”: Jim Bellows, The Last Editor, pp. 7, 10.
“When J. D. Salinger’s”: Janet Malcolm, “Justice to J. D. Salinger,” New York Review of Books, June 21, 2001.
“It was suddenly borne in”: J. D. Salinger, “Hapworth 16, 1924,” The New Yorker, June 19, 1965.
“Nobody writes about suicide”: Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger, p. 273.
“Mrs. Claire Salinger has been treated”: Gerard L. Gaudrault, M.D., statement in petition for divorce of Claire Douglas and J. D. Salinger, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 236.
“No one said”: Margaret Salinger, “Biographer Margaret Salinger Discusses Her Book on Her Father Author J. D. Salinger,” NBC News Today, September 7, 2000.
“The libelee, wholly regardless”: Claire Douglas, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 236.
“Divorced: J. D. Salinger”: Time, November 24, 1967.
“You have the right to”: The Bhagavad-Gita 2, 47.
“I had moved to Cornish”: Edward Jackson Bennett, “Encounter with Salinger,” New Hampshire magazine, August 2009.
Salerno interview with Tom Wolfe.
Salerno interview with Ethel Nelson.
“He explored Scientology”: Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 95.
“For some years”: Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger, p. 92.
“In our research”: Eberhard Alsen, “J. D. Salinger, Somerset Maugham, and Vedanta Hinduism,” unpublished essay.
“D. T. Suzuki”: Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 9.
“After Catcher, Salinger became”: Donald Simons, “J. D. Salinger and Vedanta,” (blog post), December 2, 2012.
Information about the four stages: Eberhard Alsen, “J. D. Salinger and Vedanta: The Four Stages and the Four Paths of Life,” unpublished essay.
“I never saw such a bunch of apple-eaters”: J. D. Salinger, “Teddy,” Nine Stories, p. 191.
“experienced a transformation”: Donald Simons, “J. D. Salinger and Vedanta” (blog post), December 2, 2012.
“according to the Center”: Press release from Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York, April 3, 2013, http://www.pr.com/press-release/482721.
“A man may live”: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, pp. 180, 557.
“Swami Premananda”: Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, pp. 89–90.
“New York Post”: J. D. Salinger, “Man-Forsaken Men,” New York Post Magazine, December 9, 1959, p. 48.
“Also, in 1959”: Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger, p. 123.
“In 1967 he wrote”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Swami Nikhilananda, May 1, 1967.
“In The Influence of”: Sumitra Paniker, “The Influence of Eastern Thoughts on ‘Teddy’ and the Seymour Glass Stories of J. D. Salinger,” Ph.D. thesis, 1971, University of Texas at Austin.
“In 1972 Salinger wrote”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Swami Nikhilananda, January 19, 1972.
“Later in 1972”: A. L. Bardach, “What Did J. D. Salinger, Leo Tolstoy, and Sarah Bernhardt Have in Common?” Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2012.
“in a letter he wrote in 1973”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Swami Adiswarananda, December 7, 1973.
“In 1975 Salinger wrote again”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Swami Adiswarananda, December 26, 1975.
“He is in this world”: Announcement of Salinger’s death, released by Harold Ober Associates, January 28, 2010.
“For the last five decades”: Press release from Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York, April 3, 2013, http://www.pr.com/press-release/482721.
“On April 12, 2013”: Ibid.
“Ramakrishna died in 1886”: A. L. Bardach,”What Did J. D. Salinger, Leo Tolstoy, and Sarah Bernhardt Have in Common?” Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2012.
“There isn’t anyone anywhere”: Franny and Zooey, pp. 201–2.
“Vedanta: ‘The goal is’ ”: A. L. Bardach, “What Did J. D. Salinger, Leo Tolstoy, and Sarah Bernhardt Have in Common?” Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2012.
“Vedanta: ‘As soon as’ ”: Ibid.
“Buddy: ‘An unknown boy’ ”: J. D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, pp. 205–6.
“nutcase”: Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 44.
“a condition, not a man”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Frances Glassmoyer, August 7, 1944.
“As the author A. L. Bardarch”: A. L. Bardach, “What Did J. D. Salinger, Leo Tolstoy, and Sarah Bernhardt Have in Common?” Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2012.
“The trouble is”: “Teddy,” Nine Stories, pp. 191, 188.
“I’m sick to death of just liking people”; “I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego.”; “I mean all these really advanced”: J. D. Salinger, “Franny,” Franny and Zooey, pp. 20, 29, 39.
“flatting”: J. D. Salinger, “For Esmé—with Love and Squalor,” Nine Stories, p. 87.
“I’ve been reading”: “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters,” Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, p. 91.
“One thing I know”: J. D. Salinger, “Zooey,” Franny and Zooey, p. 196.
“I tend to regard myself”: J. D. Salinger, “Seymour: An Introduction,” Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, p. 208.
“Raja-Yoga and Bhakti-Yoga”: J. D. Salinger, “Hapworth 16, 1924,” The New Yorker, June 19, 1965.
“As Som P. Ranchan”: Som P. Ranchan, An Adventure in Vedanta: J. D. Salinger’s The Glass Family, pp. 106–7.
“In ‘The Holy Refusal’ “: Dipti R. Pattanaik, “ ‘The Holy Refusal’: A Vedantic Interpretation of J. D. Salinger’s Silence,” MELUS 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998), p. 119.
“Three key Vedantic concepts”: A.L. Bardach, “What Did J. D. Salinger, Leo Tolstoy, and Sarah Bernhardt Have in Common?” Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2012.
Shane Salerno interview with A. Scott Berg.
J. D. Salinger letters to Joyce Maynard.
Shane Salerno interview with David Victor Harris as well as Stayton, Alexander, and Howland.
Shane Salerno interview with Michael McDermott.
“Two shitty literary kids”: J. D. Salinger letter to Michael Mitchell, August 31, 1979.
Paul Corkery, “Solitude May Be Bliss for Author J. D. Salinger, but to Son Matt, All the World’s a Stage,” People magazine, October 31, 1983.
“Matt Salinger: Into the Spotlight,” by David Remnick, The Washington Post, December 28, 1984.
J. D Salinger, letter to Michael Mitchell, December 16, 1992.
“Paul: A substitute teacher out”: John Guare, Six Degrees of Separation, pp. 24–25.
“Chapman was graduated from high”: James Yuenger, “Tormented Man Who Thought He Was Lennon,” Chicago Tribune, December 14, 1980.
“[I remember] a guy down on”: Tony Adams, quoted in Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down, p. 124.
“Too unsettled to continue in”: James Yuenger, “Tormented Man Who Thought He Was Lennon,” Chicago Tribune, December 14, 1980.
“Chapman and another young volunteer”: Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down, pp. 125–26.
“Chapman returned from Lebanon”: James Yuenger, “Tormented Man Who Thought He Was Lennon,” Chicago Tribune, December 14, 1980.
“I had come off the”: Mark David Chapman, quoted in Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down, p. 131.
“Paul Tharp, community relations director”: Paul L. Montgomery, “Police Trace Tangled Path Leading to Lennon’s Slaying at the Dakota,” The New York Times, December 10, 1980.
“On Oct. 27, Mr. Chapman”: Ibid.
“Well, he, he’s a phony”: Mark David Chapman, speaking on Larry King Live, September 30, 2000.
“Returning to Reeves’s apartment”: Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down, p. 198.
“On December 8, 1980, Mark”: Mark David Chapman, speaking on Larry King Live, September 30, 2000.
“The adult and the child”: Mark David Chapman, quoted in Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down, p. 44.
“About 5 p.m.”: Paul L. Montgomery, “Police Trace Tangled Path Leading to Lennon’s Slaying at the Dakota,” The New York Times, December 10, 1980.
“I left the hotel room”: Mark David Chapman, speaking on Larry King Live, September 30, 2000.
“A newspaper reproduction”: Paul L. Montgomery, “Police Trace Tangled Path Leading to Lennon’s Slaying at the Dakota,” The New York Times, December 10, 1980.
“The Lennons returned”: Ibid.
“John came out, and he”: Mark David Chapman, speaking on Larry King Live, September 30, 2000.
“As the couple walked by”: Paul L. Montgomery, “Police Trace Tangled Path Leading to Lennon’s Slaying at the Dakota,” The New York Times, December 10, 1980.
“Afterwards, it was like the”: Mark David Chapman, speaking on Larry King Live, September 30, 2000.
“Officer Moran said”: Paul L. Montgomery, “Police Trace Tangled Path Leading to Lennon’s Slaying at the Dakota,” The New York Times, December 10, 1980.
“I never wanted to hurt”: Mark David Chapman, written statement to the police, quoted in Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down, pp. 65–66.
“The reason I wanted”: Mark David Chapman, letter from jail to officer Steven Spiro, January 28, 1983, Steven Spiro reading letter to Shane Salerno in interview.
“Have you read The Catcher”: Mark David Chapman, letter to Steven Spiro, January 15, 1983.
“So it didn’t end with”: Mark David Chapman, speaking on Larry King Live, September 30, 2000.
“Across from the Dakota”: Dinty W. Moore, Between Panic and Desire, p. 61.
“The list of ingredients”: Jack Jones, Let Me Take You Down, pp. 242–43.
“Hinckley settled on assassination”: Dinty W. Moore, Between Panic and Desire, p. 61.
“A teacher’s aide”: Robert D. McFadden, “Hostages at L.I. School Are Freed, and Gunman Then Kills Himself,” The New York Times, May 17, 1983.
“Mr. Wickes was calm”: James Barron, “Last Hostage Recounts the Violent End of Siege at L.I. School,” The New York Times, May 18, 1983.
“From his parents’ house in a treeless”: Stephen Braun and Charisse Jones, “Victim, Suspect from Different Worlds,” Los Angeles Times, July 23, 1989.
“The star of the television series”: Associated Press, July 22, 1989.
“Later, acting on information”: Stephen Braun and Charisse Jones, The Los Angeles Times, July 23, 1989.
“I’m not blaming a book”: Mark David Chapman, speaking on Larry King Live, September 30, 2000.
“For the past two decades”: J. D. Salinger, quoted in court documents in Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger, p. 199.
“[After a visit to Martha’s Vineyard in August,] I ended up”: S. J. Perelman, Don’t Tread on Me: Selected Letters, p. 320.
“Through the years, Salinger would”: Andreas Brown, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 239.
“The more I age”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Janet Eagleson, August 9, 1982.
“I’m in the middle”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Janet Eagleson, August 9, 1982.
“According to the suit”: “J. D. Salinger Files Impersonation Lawsuit,” The New York Times, October 14, 1982.
“A settlement has been reached”: “J. D. Salinger in Accord on Impersonation Suit,” Associated Press, November 6, 1982.
“Four years ago [in 1983],”: Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger, p. 3.
“Dear Sir: You say you’ve”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Ian Hamilton, quoted in Phoebe Hoban, “The Salinger File,” New York, June 15, 1987.
“[In a letter Michael Mitchell]”: Sharon Steel, TimeOut New York, March 8, 2010.
“That terrible ordeal”: Lillian Ross, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 285.
“ ‘At any time during the past’ ”: deposition of J. D. Salinger, October 7, 1986.
“My thought is that”: Robert Callagy, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 286.
“There is an overexcited, wound-up”: Ian Hamilton, “In Search of J. D. Salinger,” People magazine, June 6, 1988.
“The letters are also”: Mordecai Richler, “Summer Reading, Rises at Dawn, Writes, Then Retires,” The New York Times Book Review, June 5, 1988.
“At one point”: Robert Callagy, quoted in Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 287.
“It is my view”: Pierre N. Leval, New York District Court Judge, November 5, 1986, judgment, quoted in Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger, p. 203.
“In July 1983”: United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, January 29, 1987.
“Public awareness”: Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger, p. 208.
“A biography of J. D. Salinger”: Arnold H. Lubasch, “Salinger Biography Is Blocked,” The New York Times, January 30, 1987.
“If you take this opinion”: Robert Callagy, quoted in Phoebe Hoban, “The Salinger File,” New York magazine, June 15, 1987, p. 42.
“The Supreme Court yesterday”: Eleanor Blau, “High Court Refuses to Review Salinger Book Ruling,” The New York Times, October 6, 1987.
“Mr. Hamilton’s biography”: Mordecai Richler, “Summer Reading; Rises at Dawn, Writes, Then Retires,” The New York Times Book Review, June 5, 1988.
“In the spring of 1988”: David Remnick, “Exile on Main Street: Don DeLillo’s Undisclosed Underworld,” The New Yorker, September 15, 1997.
“One day in April 1988”: Paul Alexander, Salinger: A Biography, p. 288.
“The withheld work of art”: Don DeLillo, Mao II, p. 67.
“Mr. Salinger’s modest house”: William H. Honan, “Fire Fails to Shake Salinger’s Seclusion,” The New York Times, October 24, 1992.
“He liked living in New”: Lillian Ross, “My Long Friendship with J. D. Salinger,” The New Yorker, February 8, 2010.
“I’m impressed, mightily, at”: J. D Salinger, letter to Paul Fitzgerald, July 27, 1990.
“Windsor, Vermont/Cornish”: Paul Fitzgerald, diary entry, September 26, 1991.
“Called on Salinger”: Paul Fitzgerald, diary entry, September 27, 1991.
“J. D. Salinger’s home was heavily”: “J. D. Salinger’s House Burns,” Associated Press, October 21, 1992.
“Jerry used to come”: Burnace Fitch Johnson, quoted in Paul Alexander, “J. D. Salinger’s Women,” New York magazine, February 9, 1998.
“Not even a fire”: William H. Honan, “Fire Fails to Shake Salinger’s Seclusion,” The New York Times, October 24, 1992.
“Thanks, too, for your concern”: J. D. Salinger, postcard to Paul Fitzgerald, December 1993.
“A fire ravaged Salinger’s home”: Sharon Steel, “Letters by J. D. Salinger,” Time Out, December 16, 1992.
“His search for landsmen led”: Margaret Salinger, quoted in Linton Weeks, “The Driven Character of J. D. Salinger,” The Los Angeles Times, September 6, 2000.
“In 1988, Roger Lathbury”: Ian Shapiro, “Publisher Roger Lathbury Recalls Book Deal with J. D. Salinger That Went Sour,” The Washington Post, January 29, 2010.
“Here was the voice”: Roger Lathbury, quoted ibid.
“I was a bit nervous”: Ibid.
“Salinger insisted on”: Ibid.
“I foolishly gave an interview”: Roger Lathbury quoted ibid.
“J. D. Salinger, whose life”: David Streitfeld, “Salinger Book to Break Long Silence,” The Washington Post, January 17, 1997.
“This is a book meant for readers”: Roger Lathbury, quoted in David Streitfeld, “Salinger Book to Break Long Silence,” The Washington Post, January 17, 1997.
“Seymour was the one”: Michiko Kakutani, “From Salinger, a New Dash of Mystery,” The New York Times, February 20, 1997.
“My general feeling is anguish”: Roger Lathbury, quoted in Ian Shapiro, “Publisher Roger Lathbury Recalls Book Deal with J. D. Salinger That Went Sour,” The Washington Post, January 29, 2010.
[“Hapworth” is] like the Dead Sea Scrolls”: Ron Rosenbaum, quoted in David Streitfeld, “Salinger Book to Break Long Silence,” The Washington Post, January 20, 1997.
“In the 25 intervening years”: Larissa MacFarquhar, “The Cult of Joyce Maynard,” The New York Times Magazine, September 6, 1998.
“Flatly written, with detail”: Elizabeth Gleick, “Ah, Dull Revenge,” Time, September 7, 1998.
“What we have is two celebrities”: Cynthia Ozick, quoted in Peter Applebome, “Love Letters in the Wind,” The New York Times, May 12, 1999.
“[At Home in the World is] smarmy”: Jonathan Yardley, “Avert Your Eyes! (But Read This First),” The Washington Post, August 24, 1998.
“I wonder, why you are”: Joyce Maynard, posting on her website, quoted in Paul Alexander, “J. D. Salinger’s Women,” New York magazine, February 9, 1998.
“The intensity of the literary catfight”: Juliet Waters, “Critiquing the Catfight over Joyce Maynard’s Biography,” Montreal Mirror, October 8, 1998.
“Although many readers will”: Michiko Kakutani, “More of Her Life, and Love, to Look Back On,” The New York Times, September 8, 1998.
“Defiant, taunting, score-settling”: Lisa Schwarzbaum, review of At Home in the World, by Joyce Maynard, Entertainment Weekly, September 18, 1998.
“It’s easy to make fun”: Katha Pollitt, “With Love and Squalor,” The New York Times Book Review, September 13, 1998.
“Fifteen minutes into our first date”: man quoted in Paul Alexander, “J. D. Salinger’s Women,” New York, February 9, 1998.
“Paul, old friend, No real news”: J. D. Salinger, card to Paul Fitzgerald, December 1998.
“Now, 27 years later”: Cathleen McGuigan, “Whose Life Is It Anyway?” Newsweek, May 24, 1999.
“What of the letter-writer’s”: Joyce Carol Oates, “Words of Love, Priced to Sell,” The New York Times, May 18, 1999.
“I went to Sotheby’s”: Maureen Dowd, “Leech Women in Love!” The New York Times, May 19, 1999.
“Peter Norton, a software millionaire”: Marc Peyser, “Open Season on Salinger,” Newsweek, July 5, 1999.
“My intention is to do”: Peter Norton, quoted in Dinitia Smith, “J. D. Salinger’s Love Letters Sold to Entrepreneur Who Says He Will Return Them,” The New York Times, June 23, 1999.
“The daughter of the obsessively”: Doreen Carvajal, “Salinger’s Daughter Plans to Publish a Memoir,” The New York Times, June 24, 1999.
“It turned out that I”: Margaret Salinger interview with Diane Rehm, The Diane Rehm Show, NPR, September 13, 2000, http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2000-09-13/margaret-salinger-dream-catcher-washington-square-press.
“The Plaza [Hotel in New York]”: Dinitia Smith, “Salinger’s Daughter’s Truths as Mesmerizing as His Fiction,” The New York Times, August 30, 2000.
“Certainly, in my family, [writing]”: Margaret Salinger interview with Diane Rehm, The Diane Rehm Show, NPR, September 13, 2000, http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2000-09-13/margaret-salinger-dream-catcher-washington-square-press.
“She says she wrote it”: Ron Rosenbaum, “The Flight from Fortress Salinger,” New York Times Book Review, October 8, 2000.
“One woman, responding to a”: Thomas Childers, Soldier from the War, Returning, p. 10.
“Of all the private documents”: Benjamin Anastas, “An Unexamined Life,” in With Love and Squalor, ed. Kip Kotzen and Thomas Beller, pp. 150–51.
“It seems to me that”: Sven Birkerts, “Margaret Invades J. D.’s Studio; She Should Have Let Daddy Work,” The Observer, September 18, 2000.
“Dream Catcher is indeed”: Jonathan Yardley, “Punching Salinger Below the Belt,” The Washington Post, September 1, 2000.
“Ladies and gentlemen”: Judith Shulevitz, “Salinger on Trial,” Slate.com, September 21, 2000.
“Gosh, I wish”: Margaret Salinger, CNN.com interview, September 7, 2000, http://www.cnn.com/chat/transcripts/2000/9/7/salinger.
“I really would like to”: Margaret Salinger, speaking in CNN interview with Bill Hemmer, September 7, 2000, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/07/mn.08.html.
“I love my father very much”: Matthew Salinger, quoted in Leslie Aldridge Westoff.
“I would prefer not to speak”: Margaret Salinger, CNN.com interview, September 7, 2000.
“Of course, I can’t say”: Matthew Salinger, letter to The New York Observer, September 25, 2000.
“Salinger had invited me for”: Renata Adler, Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker, June 2000, pp. 98–99.
“Salinger has been seen”: Walter Scott, “Walter Scott’s Personality Parade,” Parade, May 23, 1971.
“He’s just working”: Richard Haitch, The New York Times, February 12, 1978.
“Another friend, Jonathan Schwarz, tells”: Richard Brooks, London Sunday Times, “J. D. Salinger ‘Has 15 New Books in Safe,’ ” March 21, 1999.
“My sister and I”: Matthew Salinger, quoted in David Remnick, “Matt Salinger: Into the Spotlight,” The Washington Post, December 28, 1984.
“At one point during the more than half century”: Lillian Ross, “Bearable,” The New Yorker, February 8, 2010.
“Salinger’s place in Cornish history”: Hillel Italie, “J. D. Salinger’s New Hampshire Hometown Has a Rich Artistic History,” USA Today, February 7, 2010.
“Mr. Salinger was a regular”: Katie Zezima, “J. D. Salinger a Recluse? Well, Not to His Neighbors,” The New York Times, January 31, 2010.
“Salinger would occasionally take in”: John Curran, Associated Press, January 29, 2010.
“He would, until recent years”: Katie Zezima, “J. D. Salinger a Recluse? Well, Not to His Neighbors,” The New York Times, January 31, 2010.
“Gwen Tetirick, one of Salinger’s”: Ashley Blum, “Town Shielded Salinger from Visitors,” The Dartmouth, February 4, 2010.
“We all just say ‘J. D.”: Gwen Tetirick, quoted ibid.
“In order to be accepted”: Annabelle Cone, quoted by Ashley Blum, “Town Shielded Salinger from Visitors,” The Dartmouth, February 4, 2010.
“[Salinger] was like the Batman”: Mike Ackerman, quoted by Katie Zezima, “J. D. Salinger a Recluse? Well, Not to His Neighbors,” The New York Times, January 31, 2010.
“Locals concur that Salinger”: Tom Leonard, “What I Heard at J. D. Salinger’s Doorstep,” The Spectator, April 1, 2009.
“During the last two years”: Ashley Blum, “Town Shielded Salinger from Visitors,” The Dartmouth, February 4, 2010.
“His wife stopped by the last two Saturdays”: Susan J. Boutwell and Alex Hanson, “J. D. Salinger, Recluse of Cornish, Dies” Valley News, January 29, 2010.
“J. D. Salinger, who was thought”: Charles McGrath, “J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91,” The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
“In keeping with his lifelong”: Harold Ober Associates statement, quoted in Charles McGrath, “J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91,” The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
“Cornish is a truly remarkable place”: Colleen O’Neill, quoted in Susan J. Boutwell and Alex Hanson, “J. D. Salinger, Recluse of Cornish, Dies,” Valley News, January 29, 2010.
“Obviously, we’re prepared”: Doug Hackett, quoted in, Susan J. Boutwell and Alex Hanson, “Salinger’s Neighbors Protected Him,” Rutland Herald, January 29, 2010.
“No one else could make”: Lillian Ross, “Bearable,” The New Yorker, February 8, 2010.
“Matt Salinger answered the doorbell”: John Curran, Associated Press, January 29, 2010.
“J. D. Salinger, who died last month at 91”: Jennifer Schuessler, “Inside the List,” The New York Times Book Review, February 4, 2010.
“There are lots of good”: Adam Gopnik, “What Salinger Means to Me,” All Things Considered, NPR, January 28, 2010.
“Ernest Hemingway famously said”: Rick Moody, “Salinger: An Influential Voice, Even in ‘Silence,’ ” NPR, January 28, 2010.
“Some critics dismissed the easy”: Michiko Kakutani, “Of Teen Angst and an Author’s Alienation,” The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
“Lost along the way, much”: Stephen Metcalf, “Salinger’s Genius: He Was the Great Poet of Post-Traumatic Stress,” Slate, January 28, 2010.
“I have never been bothered by”: Michael Tannenbaum, “Twice Dead,” Johns Hopkins Newsletter, February 4, 2010.
“Everyone is trying to keep”: Annabelle Cone, quoted in Ashley Blum, “Town Shielded Salinger from Visitors,” The Dartmouth, February 4, 2010.
“Depending on one’s point of view”: Charles McGrath, “J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91,” The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
“My own pet theory is”: Dave Eggers, “Remembering Salinger: Dave Eggers,” The New Yorker blog, January 29, 2010, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/01/remembering-salinger-dave-eggers.html.
“Jay McInerney, a young star”: Hillel Italie, Associated Press, February 7, 2010.
“My father on many occasions”: Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 47.
“Boy, when you’re dead, they”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, July 1951.
“I am in this world”: J. D. Salinger, Harold Ober Associates statement, quoted in Charles McGrath, “J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91,” The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
“meeting up with those he loves”: Harold Ober Associates statement, quoted in Charles McGrath, “J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91,” The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
“I’m a condition, not a man”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Frances Glassmoyer, August 7, 1944.
“avoid woman and gold”: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, translated by Swami Nikhilananda, Chapter 7, “The Master and Vijay Goswami,” http://www.belurmath.org/gospel.
“in this world”: Harold Ober Associates statement, quoted in Charles McGrath, “J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91,” The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
“little Oona is in love”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Elizabeth Murray, undated.
“just not right for us”: William Maxwell, letter to Dorothy Olding, February 4, 1944.