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to Learned Hand, October 27, 1958.

7. Ian Hamilton, J. D. Salinger: A Writing Life (unpublished October galley, 1986).

8. Ben Yagoda, About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2001), 287.

9. Salinger to Warner G. Rice (English Department chairman, University of Michigan), January 10, 1957.

10. Salinger to “Mr. Hammond,” June 16, 1957.

11. Salinger to “Mr. Stevens,” October 21, 1962.

12. J. D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour—an Introduction (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991), 160.

13. Ibid., 114.

14. Salinger to Learned Hand, April 18, 1958.


Chapter 16: Dark Summit

1. Salinger to Learned Hand, April 18, 1958.

2. Letter to the editor, New York Post, December 9, 1959, 49.

3. Whit Burnett to Salinger, November 7, 1959.

4. Dorothy Olding to Whit Burnett, November 10, 1959.

5. State of Vermont, Certified Copy of Certificate of Birth, Matthew Robert Salinger, August 9, 1960.

6. Salinger to Learned Hand, April 18, 1960.

7. Ibid.

8. Jamie Hamilton to Ian Hamilton, June 26, 1984.

9. J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey, dedication (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961).

10. Ernest Havemann, “The Mysterious J. D. Salinger,” Newsweek, May 30, 1960, 92–94.

11. New York Post Magazine, April 30, 1961, 5.

12. Donald Fiene, A Bibliographical Study of J. D. Salinger: Life, Work and Reputation, unpublished thesis paper, August 26, 1961.

13. Frederick A. Colwell, Chief, American Specialists Branch, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, to Judge Learned Hand, September 20, 1960.

14. Learned Hand to Frederick A. Colwell, September 28, 1960.

15. Frederick A. Colwell to Learned Hand, October 5, 1960.

16. Judge Learned Hand to Frederick A. Colwell, October 11, 1960.

17. Salinger to Ned Bradford, May 13, 1961.

18. Norman Mailer, “Evaluation: Quick and Expensive Comments on the Talent in the Room,” Advertisements for Myself (New York: Putnam, 1959), 467–468.

19. Alfred Kazin, “J. D. Salinger: Everybody’s Favorite,” The Atlantic Monthly, August 1961, 27–31.

20. Joan Didion, “Finally (Fashionably) Spurious,” National Review, November 18, 1961, 341–342.

21. John Updike, “Anxious Days for the Glass Family,” The New York Times Book Review, September 17, 1961, 1, 52.

22. Mary McCarthy, “J. D. Salinger’s Closed Circuit,” The Observer, June 1962.

23. Frances Kiernan, Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy (London: Norton, 2002), 493.

24. J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey, dust jacket excerpt (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961).

25. “Sonny—an Introduction,” Time, September 15, 1961, 84–90.

26. Ernest Havemann, “The Search for the Mysterious J. D. Salinger,” Life, November 3, 1961, 141.


Chapter 17: Detachment

1. J. D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour—an Introduction (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991), 121.

2. Salinger to Learned Hand, April 18, 1960.

3. Salinger to Robert Machell, March 22, 1960.

4. Salinger to Learned Hand, February 19, 1961.

5. Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher (New York: Washington Square Press, 2000), 148.

6. J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey, dust jacket excerpt (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961).

7. Salinger to Donald Fiene, September 6, 1960.

8. Heinemann Press memo, March 20, 1962.

9. Salinger to Miss Pat Cork, Hughes Massie & Co., Ltd., May 26, 1962.

10. Miss Pat Cork, Hughes Massie & Co., Ltd., to Ober Associates, May 1, 1962.

11. J. D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour—an Introduction, dust jacket commentary.

12. Irving Howe, “More Reflections in the Glass Mirror,” The New York Times Book Review, April 7, 1963, 4–5, 34.

13. “The Glass House Gang,” Time, February 8, 1963.

14. J. D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour—an Introduction, dedication.


Chapter 18: Farewell

1. Eliot Fremont-Smith, “Franny and Zooey,” The Village Voice, March 8, 1962.

2. M., The Gospels of Sri Ramakrishna (New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1944), ch. 4, “Advice to Householders.”

3. Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher

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