“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.
CONVERSATION WITH SALINGER #7
Salerno interview with Tom Wolfe.
CONVERSATION WITH SALINGER #8
Salerno interview with Ethel Nelson.
15: SEYMOUR’S SECOND SUICIDE
“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.
“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 regar
d 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.
CONVERSATION WITH SALINGER #9
Shane Salerno interview with A. Scott Berg.
16: DEAR MISS MAYNARD
J. D. Salinger letters to Joyce Maynard.
17: DEAR MR. SALINGER
Joyce Maynard.
CONVERSATION WITH SALINGER #10
Shane Salerno interview with David Victor Harris as well as Stayton, Alexander, and Howland.
CONVERSATION WITH SALINGER #11
Shane Salerno interview with Michael McDermott.
“Two shitty literary kids”: J. D. Salinger letter to Michael Mitchell, August 31, 1979.
CONVERSATION WITH SALINGER #12
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.
18: ASSASSINS
“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.
19: A PRIVATE CITIZEN
“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 Bl
ocked,” 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.