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5. Ibid.
6. Social Security Death Index Number 107-38-2023; Miriam Jillich Salinger. Social Security and census records give Salinger’s mother’s birth year as 1891, but Miriam herself often insisted that she had been born in 1882.
7. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900.
8. Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910.
9. Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920.
10. Sidney Salinger to the author, December 26, 2005.
11. Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920.
12. Selective Service Registration, Solomon Salinger, October 5, 1917. The registration was for the First World War and contained a physical description of him at age thirty.
13. 1930 Camp Wigwam Annual, 65.
14. 1932–1933 and 1933–1934 report cards for Jerome Salinger, the McBurney School, copies in Ian Hamilton Working Papers.
15. Salinger to Jeffrey Dix, July 1993.
16. Richard Gonder to Ian Hamilton, March 1985.
17. J. D. Salinger, “Class Prophecy,” Crossed Sabres, 1936 Valley Forge Military Academy yearbook.
18. J. D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew,” Good Housekeeping, February 1948, 37.
19. J. D. Salinger, “Contributors,” Story, November–December 1944, 1.
20. William Maxwell, “J. D. Salinger,” Book-of-the-Month Club News, July 1951.
21. Francis Glassmoyer to Ian Hamilton, February 12, 1985.
22. J. D. Salinger, “Musings of a Social Soph: The Skipped Diploma,” The Ursinus Weekly, Monday, October 10, 1938, 2.
Chapter 2: Ambition
1. Whit Burnett to Salinger, November 7, 1959.
2. J. D. Salinger, “Early Fall in Central Park,” 1939, Charles Hanson Towne Papers (1891–1948), New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division.
3. J. D. Salinger, “A Salute to Whit Burnett,” Fiction Writer’s Handbook, Hallie and Whit Burnett (New York: Harper and Row, 1975).
4. Salinger to Whit Burnett, November 21, 1939.
5. Burnett, Fiction Writer’s Handbook.
6. Salinger to Whit Burnett, April 17, 1940.
7. Salinger to Whit Burnett, November 21, 1939.
8. Salinger to Whit Burnett, January 28, 1940.
9. Ibid.
10. Whit Burnett to Salinger, February 28, 1940.
11. Whit Burnett to Salinger, April 18, 1940.
12. Salinger to Whit Burnett, April 19, 1940.
13. Salinger to Whit Burnett, May 16, 1940.
14. Salinger to Whit Burnett, September 4, 1940.
15. Salinger to Whit Burnett, September 6, 1940.
16. Salinger to Whit Burnett, September 4, 1940.
17. Salinger to Whit Burnett, September 6, 1940.
18. Passenger list (staff), SS Kungsholm, March 6, 1941.
19. Salinger to Colonel Milton G. Baker, Supt. VFMA, December 12, 1941.
20. J. D. Salinger, “The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls,” unpublished, 1944, 1.
21. Salinger to Whit Burnett, June 1943.
22. Gloria Murray to Ian Hamilton, 1984.
23. Jane Scovell, Oona Living in the Shadows: A Biography of Oona O’Neill Chaplin (New York: Warner, 1998), 87.
24. Ian Hamilton, J. D. Salinger: A Writing Life (unpublished October galley) (New York: Random House, 1986), 54.
25. Memo from Kurt M. Semon (editor at Story) to Harold Ober, August 11, 1941.
26. J. D. Salinger, “The Heart of a Broken Story,” Esquire, September 1941, 32.
27. Salinger to Whit Burnett, January 22, 1942.
28. Ibid.
29. Ben Yagoda, About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2001), 233.
30. John Mosher to Harold Ober, February 14, 1941.
31. Salinger to Elizabeth Murray, October 31, 1941.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. Salinger to Herb Kauffman, July 1943.
35. J. D. Salinger, “Slight Rebellion off Madison,” The New Yorker, December 1946, 76–79.
Chapter 3: Indecision
1. Salinger to Whit Burnett, January 11, 1942.
2. Ibid.
3. Salinger to Whit Burnett, January 2, 1942.
4. William Maxwell to Harold Ober, February 26, 1942.
5. Salinger to Whit Burnett, January 2, 1942.
6. William Maxwell to Harold Ober, ND (but after February 1942).
7. Salinger to Colonel Milton Baker, December 12, 1941.
8. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Enlistment Records, Jerome David Salinger, 32325200.
9. J. D. Salinger, “The Last and Best of the Peter Pans,