Re: provocative web page?

David L. White (d-white@nwu.edu)
Tue, 16 Dec 1997 08:59:24 -0600 

Here we go.  I hope this isn't old news to you guys.  I haven't been
keeping up with the posts as faithfully as I used to.

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Author to write about affair with J.D.
Salinger


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NEW YORK (November 21, 1997 10:23 p.m. EST http://www.nando.net) -- Joyce
Maynard, the
novelist and journalist whose first love was J.D. Salinger, plans to break
a 25-year silence about
her nine-month relationship with the reclusive author by writing about it
in a memoir.

Salinger, who lives in Cornish, N.H., wrote to Maynard in the spring of
1972 after reading a
magazine article the Yale freshman had written that attracted wide
attention. The article, "An
18-Year-Old Looks Back on Life," was accompanied by her photograph.

She visited Salinger, then 53, in Cornish that summer and stayed until the
couple split when spring
broke.

Maynard, now 44, told The New York Times for an article in Friday's
editions that she will write
about the relationship in a memoir she plans to publish in 1999.

"I viewed him as my mentor and teacher and the person I trusted most in the
world," she said in an
interview from her home north of San Francisco. "He was the first man I
ever loved. My purpose
is not to divulge his story. I'm sticking to my own story."

Salinger, best known as the author of "The Catcher in the Rye," hasn't come
out with a book in 34
years. Last spring, a small publisher announced publication of Salinger's
"Hapworth 16, 1924,"
which first appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 1965. Publication has
been delayed.

Salinger, who has an unlisted phone number and who has been called "the
most private man in
America," gave his last extensive newspaper interview in 1953, and a brief
interview to another
newspaper in 1980.

Maynard told the Times that her relationship with Salinger began when he
wrote her "a deeply
thoughtful, very moving" one-page letter. "That precipitated a
correspondence that remained
through my freshman year at Yale," she said.

She said she has 20 to 30 letters from him, but will not quote from them in
her book. "I will refer to
the ideas and thoughts in the letters," she said.

The Times said Maynard went to visit Salinger, 78, last week for the first
time in 25 years. Asked
if he minded that she planned to write about him, she said, "You better ask
him that. I don't for a
moment think he would want me to write this."

When Maynard first visited Salinger, she had not read any of his books. She
spent their winter
together working on a memoir, "Looking Back," which was published in 1973.

After the couple broke up, Maynard said, she wrote to Salinger but he never
answered.

Maynard has since married and divorced and written seven books as well as a
newspaper column
focusing on her personal and family life. After living in Hillsboro, N.H.,
and Keene, N.H., she
recently moved to California.

She said she decided to write her book after her daughter Audrey turned 18
last year.

"I watched her struggling with becoming a young woman in the world," she
said. "I remembered
who I used to be."

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