interesting to note that salinger did not include wordsworth in his list of writers he loves. in fact, in 'seymour: an introduction', buddy lumps wordsworth with browning as miss overman's old swains.
re: iq and genius--thanks, cecilia, for your extended email on this subject. i was just throwing out the number cause it stuck in my mind, and that salinger, on that test, didn't score off the board a la seymour or zooey or teddy. i would say that salinger is a genius of a writer, without a doubt. and, most importantly, that he had the genius to protect and nuture his gift from an early age. it's quite apparent he wasn't going to be helped by staying in the educational system. (just the opposite.) it seems he only needed one writing course from whit burnett, and that was it. (i don't think today's mfa degrees are producing too many salingers.)
kim
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