Subject: Re: Holden is Number Two Fitzgerald and Salinger
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 15 2002 - 22:49:41 EST
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Jim
Omlor@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I believe what Will was originally referring to is the fact, commonly
> known among Salinger scholars but not mentioned much outside the
> university (because of the threat of lawsuits, etc.) that J.D.
> Salinger and Scott Fitzgerald were actually the same person. After
> his career had begun to disintegrate, along with his health, Scott
> Fitzgerald tried his hand in Hollywood, writing screenplays in the
> late 1930s. But his filmwriting career was a complete bust and so
> Scott faked his own death from alcoholism with help of his good friend
> Martha Graham (or maybe it was her sister, Sheila) and returned to New
> York and set about writing a new series of novels and short stories
> under the name of "J.D. Salinger." He hired a young actor to play his
> "alter-ego" in publisher's meetings and around the New Yorker
> building. Unfortunately, Scott was growing old and had only so much
> time left, and by the time he was 70, in 1966, he could no longer
> write. He died of natu! ral causes in his early seventies, exactly at
> the moment when "Salinger" allegedly stopped writing and disappeared
> from public life.
>
> Unfortunately, the actor who played the "Salinger" role for Scott
> continues to be hounded by fans and the press despite his having moved
> to a part of the world where no sane person would ever live. It is
> only one of several humiliations he has spent his lifetime enduring --
> the most tortuous of which, no doubt, was being forced to sleep with
> Joyce Maynard just to continue his employer's public deception.
>
> But I probably shouldn't be mentioning any of this. You'll notice, no
> doubt, that no one has actually seen Ian Hamilton in a very long time.
>
> Bye,
>
> --John (on Spring Break)
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