> I don't know how much we can learn about Shawn's editing > role, but somehow I imagine mr. salinger to be a bit less malleable > I hope this is not a stupid question...Was it William Shawn who edited Salinger's work, or was it William Maxwell or Katherine White? Reading Hapworth, I get the feeling that there is definitely something different going on, a different feel to Hapworth from the earlier stories, something looser (not a pejorative term), and I was wondering if this might be attributed to the tendency of writers to agree to editing at one point and to put their foot down later...??