When asked . . . “the bread lines of the thirties”: This quote comes from my interview with Roger Lathbury.
GHOSTS IN THE SHADOWS
The material in this chapter, including all quotes, are taken from my New York article “J. D. Salinger’s Women.” Much of the chapter is confirmed by incidents in At Home in the World by Joyce Maynard.
“I would not assign . . . unduly assailed”: This quote comes from my interview with Gordon Lish.
CODA
“He began to write . . . that’s different, isn’t it?”: This quote comes from my interview with Russell Hoban.
On the issue of . . . agents and friends”: These quotes come from my interview with George Plimpton.
Index
“A Boy in France,” ref1, ref2, ref3
A Brighter Day, ref1
“A Girl I Knew,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Adao, Paul, ref1
Addams, Charles, ref1
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The, ref1
Alfonso XIII, ref1
Andrews, Dana, ref1
Angell, Roger, ref1
As the World Turns, ref1
Atlantic Monthly, ref1
Austen, Jane, ref1
Baker, Milton S., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Baldwin, Jerome Faith, ref1
Bardo, Robert John, ref1
Barth, Alan, ref1
Barthleme, Donald, ref1
Batchelor, John Calvin, ref1
Baton Rouge Advocate, ref1
Beauty and the Beast, ref1
Behrman, S. N., ref1
Bell Jar, The, ref1, ref2
Bellows, Jim, ref1
Berg, A. Scott, ref1
Best American Short Stories of 1949, ref1
“Bitsy,” ref1, ref2
Blake, William, ref1
Blaney, Shirlie, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bloom, Harold, ref1
“Blue Melody,” ref1
Book-of-the-Month Club News, ref1, ref2, ref3
“Both Parties Concerned,” ref1, ref2, ref3
Boulton, Agnes, ref1, ref2, ref3
“Boy Standing in Tennessee, A,” ref1
Bradford, Ned, ref1
Bradley, Omar, ref1
Brady, James, ref1
Breit, Harvey, ref1
Brontë, Emily, ref1, ref2, ref3
Brown, Andreas, ref1, ref2, ref3
Brown, Ned, ref1
Bullock, Turner, ref1
Bunyan, John, ref1
Burger, Nash K., ref1
Burnett, Hallie, ref1
Burnett, Whit, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26
Burns, Robert, ref1
Callagy, Robert, ref1
Campbell, Frank, ref1
Capote, Truman, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Carroll, Lewis, ref1
Casablanca, ref1
Catcher in the Rye, The, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36, ref37, ref38
Caldwell, Taylor, ref1
Chambrun, Jacques, ref1
Chaplin, Charlie, ref1, ref2
Chapman, Mark David, ref1
Charques, R. D., ref1
Cheever, John, ref1, ref2, ref3
Chekhov, Anton, ref1
“Children’s Echelon, The,” ref1
Christian Science Monitor, ref1
Churchill, Winston, ref1
Claremont Daily Eagle, ref1, ref2, ref3
Clarkson, Michael, ref1, ref2
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, ref1
College English, ref1
Collier’s, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Complete Uncollected Stories of J. D. Salinger, The, ref1
Congdon, Don, ref1
Connelly, Steve, ref1
Conrad, Joseph, ref1
Cooper, Gary, ref1
Cosmopolitan, ref1, ref2, ref3
Crack-Up, The, ref1
Cranach, Lucas, ref1
Crossed Sabres, ref1
Crowther, Bosley ref1
Crying of Lot 49, The, ref1
Culligan, Glendy, ref1
Dancing in the End Zone, ref1
“Daughter of the Late Great Man, The,” ref1, ref2
“De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period,” ref1, ref2
De Niro, Robert, ref1
Dean, James, ref1
Deitzler, Richard, ref1, ref2
Delahanty, Timothy, ref1
DeLillo, Don, ref1, ref2
DeVries, Peter, ref1
Dickins, Charles, ref1
Didion, Joan, ref1, ref2
Dodge, Carlotta Saint-Gaudens, ref1, ref2
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, ref1
Douglas, Jean Stewart, ref1
Douglas, Robert Langton, ref1
“Down at the Dinghy,” ref1, ref2
Dynasty, ref1
Edward VIII, ref1
Eisenberg, Lee, ref1
Eisenhower, Dwight, ref1
“Elaine,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Elfin, Mel, ref1
Eliot, John, ref1
Ellis, Bret Easton, ref1, ref2
“Entropy,” ref1
Eppes, Betty, ref1, ref2, ref3
Epstein, Julius, ref1
Epstein, Leslie, ref1
Epstein, Philip, ref1
Erskine, Albert, ref1
Esquire, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Fadiman, Clifton, ref1
Faison, William, ref1, ref2, ref3
Faulkner, William, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Ferrell, Dorothy, ref1
Ferrell, James T., ref1
Fiction Writer’s Handbook, A, ref1
Field of Dreams, ref1, ref2
55 Stories, ref1
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Flaubert, Gustave, ref1, ref2
Foley, Martha, ref1
For Esmé—With Love and Squalor, ref1, ref2, ref3
“For Esmé—With Love and Squalor,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
“For Rupert—With No Regrets,” ref1
Fosburgh, Lacey, ref1, ref2
Foster, Jodie, ref1, ref2
Franco, Francisco, ref1
Frankland, Arthur J., ref1
Frankland, Elizabeth K., ref1
Franny and Zooey, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
“Franny,” ref1, ref2
French, Warren, ref1, ref2, ref3
Garbo, Greta, ref1
Gaudrault, Gerard, ref1
Gibbs, Woolcott, ref1
Gill, Brendan, ref1
Giroux, Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3
Give Me the World, ref1
Glassmoyer, Frances, ref1
“Go See Eddie,” ref1
Goldwyn, Samuel, ref1, ref2
Gonder, Richard, ref1
Good Housekeeping, ref1, ref2
Goodman, Ann L., ref1
Gravity’s Rainbow, ref1
Great Gatsby, The, ref1, ref2
“Greenberg, John,” ref1
Grobel, Lawrence, ref1
Guardian, ref1
Guiding Your Child to a More Creative Life, ref1
Hadley, Leila, ref1
Hamilton, Hamish, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
Hamilton, Ian, ref1, ref2
Hand, Learned, ref1
“Hang of It, The,” ref1, ref2, ref3
Hapworth 16, 1924, ref1
“Hapworth 16, 1924,” ref1, ref2
Harper’s, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Harper’s Bazaar, ref1
Hart, Bret, ref1
Hartt, J. N., ref1
Havem
ann, Ernest, ref1
Hayward, Susan, ref1
Head, Edith, ref1
“Heart of the Broken Story, The,” ref1
Heath, Samuel, ref1
Heinemann, William, ref1, ref2
Heiserman, Arthur, ref1
Heller, Joseph, ref1
Hellman, Lillian, ref1
Hemingway, Ernest, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Henry, Q., ref1, ref2
Here at the New Yorker, ref1
Heyen, Anabel, ref1
Highet, Gilbert, ref1
Hill, Franklin, ref1
Hinckley, John, ref1, ref2
Hitler, Adolf, ref1, ref2, ref3
Hoban, Esmé, ref1
Hoban, Phoebe, ref1
Hoban, Russell, ref1, ref2
Hoffman, Harry, ref1
Holiday, Billie, ref1
Honan, William H., ref1
Hoover, J. Edgar, ref1
Hotchner, A. E., ref1, ref2
Howe, Irving, ref1
Hughes, Barnard, ref1
“I’m Crazy,” ref1, ref2
In Search of J. D. Salinger, ref1
“Inverted Forest, The,” ref1, ref2, ref3
Iowa English, ref1
J. D. Salinger: A Writing Life, ref1
“J. D. Salinger: Some Crazy Cliff,” ref1
Jack the Giant Killer, ref1
Jackson, Shirley, ref1
James, Henry, ref1, ref2, ref3
Johnson, Burnace Fitch, ref1
Jones, Ernest, ref1, ref2
Jones, James Earl, ref1
Journey’s End, ref1, ref2
Joyce, Elaine, ref1, ref2
Joyce, James, ref1
“Just Before the War with the Eskimos,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Kafka, Franz, ref1, ref2
Kakutani, Michiko, ref1
Kaysen, Susanna, ref1
Keats, John, ref1
Kennedy, John F., ref1
Kennedy Jr., John F., ref1
Kennedy’s Children, ref1
Kermode, Frank, ref1
Kidman, Nicole, ref1
Kierkegaard, Soren, ref1
Kierstead, Mary D., ref1, ref2
King, Billie Jean, ref1
Kinsella, W. P., ref1, ref2
Kosner, Edward, ref1, ref2
Krim, Seymour, ref1
Lady of Letters, ref1
Landon, Alfred, ref1
Lardner, Ring, ref1
“Last and the Best of the Peter Pans, The,” ref1
“Last Day of the Last Furlough,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Lathbury, Roger, ref1, ref2
“Laughing Man, The,” ref1, ref2
Laver, Rod, ref1
Lee, Harper, ref1
Leigh, Vivien, ref1
Lennon, John, ref1
Lennon, Sean, ref1
Leval, Pierre N., ref1
Life, ref1
Lincoln, Abraham, ref1
Lish, Becky, ref1
Lish, Gordon, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Lobrano, Gus, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Loeb, William, ref1
Lolita, ref1
“Long Debut of Lois Taggett, The,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Longstreth, T. Morris, ref1
Looking Back, ref1
Lorca, Federico Garcia, ref1
Lost Horizon, ref1
Lowell, Robert, ref1, ref2
“Low-Lands,” ref1
Lundegaard, Karen, ref1
Lunts, the, ref1
Machell, Roger, ref1, ref2, ref3
Madame Bovary, ref1
Mademoiselle, ref1, ref2
“Magic Foxhole, The,” ref1
Mailer, Norman, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Mainstream, ref1
Manchester Union Leader, ref1
Manhattan: Stories from the Heart of a Great City, ref1
Mao II, ref1
Marcus, Carol, ref1
Maxwell, William, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Maynard, Fredelle, ref1
Maynard, Joyce, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Maynard, Max, ref1
McCarten, John, ref1
McCarthy, Joseph, ref1
McCarthy, Mary, ref1, ref2
McCullers, Carson, ref1, ref2
Melville, Herman, ref1
Miller, James E., ref1
Minor, Roger, ref1
Mosher, John, ref1, ref2
Mr. Merlin, ref1
Mr. Skeffington, ref1
Murray, Elizabeth, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Murray, Gloria, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Mussolini, Benito, ref1, ref2
My Foolish Heart, ref1, ref2
My Sister Sam, ref1
Nabokov, Vladimir, III, ref1
Nation, The, ref1, ref2
National Geographic, ref1
National Review, ref1
Nelson, Ethel, ref1, ref2
New Republic, ref1
New World Writing, ref1
New York Herald-Tribune, ref1
New York Post, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
New York Times, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14
New York Times Book Review, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
New York Times Magazine, ref1, ref2, ref3
New Yorker, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36, ref37, ref38, ref39, ref40, ref41, ref42, ref43, ref44, ref45, ref46, ref47, ref48, ref49, ref50, ref51
Newman, Carol Montgomery, ref1
Newman, Jon O., ref1
Newsweek, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Niagara Falls Review, ref1
Nikhilananda, Swami, ref1
Ober, Harold, ref1, ref2
Oberon, Merle, ref1
Observer Weekend Review, ref1, ref2
Observer, The (London), ref1
“Ocean Full of Bowling Balls, An,” ref1, ref2, ref3
O’Hara, John, ref1
Olding, Dorothy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
Olivier, Lawrence, ref1, ref2
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, ref1
“Once a Week Won’t Kill You,” ref1, ref2, ref3
One Life to Live, ref1
O’Neill. Eugene, ref1
O’Neill, Oona, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Ono, Yoko, ref1
Oswald, Lee Harvey, ref1
Out of Africa, ref1
Oxenberg, Catherine, ref1
Paris Review, ref1
Paul, Marcia B., ref1, ref2
“Paula,” ref1
Perelman, S. J., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
“Perfect Day for Bananafish, A,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
“Personal Notes on an Infantryman,” ref1, ref2
Plath, Sylvia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Plimpton, George, ref1, ref2, ref3
Presley, Elvis, ref1
“Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes,” ref1, ref2
Priestley, J. B., ref1
Prize Stories of 1949, ref1
Proust, Marcel, ref1
Pynchon, Thomas, ref1, ref2, ref3
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
“Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Raisins and Almonds, ref1
Reagan, Ronald, ref1, ref2
Reynal, Eugene, ref1
Rilke, Rainer Maria, ref1
Rimbaud, Arthur, ref1
Robson, Mark, ref1
Roeder, Bill, ref1
Roosevelt, Franklin D., ref1, ref2, ref3
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p; Rose, Stuart, ref1, ref2
Rosenbaum, Ron, ref1
Ross, Harold, ref1
Ross, Lillian, ref1, ref2, ref3
Rutan, Waldemar Ivan, ref1
Sacramento Bee, ref1
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, ref1, ref2
Salinger, Betsy Becker, ref1
Salinger, Claire Douglas, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16
Salinger, Colleen O’Neill, ref1, ref2, ref3
Salinger, Doris, ref1, ref2
Salinger, Gannon, ref1
Salinger, Margaret Ann (Peggy), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Salinger, Manam (Mane Jillich), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Salinger, Matthew Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Salinger, Pierre, ref1
Salinger, Simon, ref1
Salinger, Solomon, ref1, ref2
Salinger, Sylvia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
San Francisco Chronicle, ref1
Saturday Evening Post, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Saturday Night Live, ref1
Schaeffer, Rebecca, ref1
Schuman, Jerome, ref1, ref2
Schwartz, Jonathan, ref1
“Scratchy Needle on a Phonograph Record,” ref1
Seventeen, ref1, ref2, ref3
Sexton, Anne, ref1
“Seymour: An Introduction,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Shakespeare, William, ref1
Shaw, Irwin, ref1
Shawn, William, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Sherriff, R. C., ref1
Shoeless Joe, ref1, ref2
Short Story Masterpieces, ref1
6 Rms. Riv Vu., ref1
“Slight Rebellion Off Madison,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
“Soft-Boiled Sergeant,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Soho Weekly News, ref1
Soroyan, William, ref1, ref2, ref3
Spectator, ref1
Stag, ref1
Stalin, Joseph, ref1
Starbuck, George, ref1
Steinmetz, Charles, ref1
Stern, James, ref1
Stevenson, Robert Lewis, ref1
Story, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
Story Jubilee: 33 Years of Story, ref1, ref2
Stram, Hank, ref1
“Stranger, The,” ref1
Streitfeld, David, ref1
Stuart, Jesse, ref1
Sum of Us, The, ref1
“Survivors, The,” ref1
Swan Lake, ref1
Sylvia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Tarkington, Booth, ref1