Re: Sunday Times article

Meredith Kay (h_weatherfield@hotmail.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:10:07 -0800 (PST)

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Let me get my facts straight...

This article appeared in the London Sunday Times, on Sunday, 21 March 
1999... ?  The author was Richard Brooks?  I'm in PA, so I'm trying to 
get my information correct if I'm going to us this as a source for my 
research paper. (For the record, my notes and bibliography were due 
YESTERDAY, but, as a hopeless procrastinator, I'm not EVEN close to 
being finished with anything even remotely related to this paper.)

Thanks for posting this and helping out a lazy student!!!

-- Meredith Kay


>From: Scottie Bowman 
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: Bananafish 
>Subject: Sunday Times article
>Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 17:02:13 +0000
>
>    The following appeared in this morning's 
>    Sunday Times (London).  It seems to be 
>    in preparation for the television programme 
>    on Tuesday evening.
>
>    I've copied this from the Sunday Times web page.
>    And, of course, take no responsibility for any 
>    righteous indignation aroused in the hearts of 
>    loyal minions.
>
>    Scottie B.
>    _____________________________________
>
>    J D Salinger 'has 15 new books in safe' 
>    by Richard Brooks 
>    Arts Editor 
> 
>    J D SALINGER, one of the world's most influential and 
>    reclusive authors, has written at least 15 books since his last 
>    work was published more than 30 years ago, according to 
>    friends. He is keeping them in a huge vault at his home. 
>    The American author of The Catcher in the Rye has shunned 
>    the public eye since the mid-1960s and has not published 
>    a word since a book of short stories in 1965. His second 
>    and last published novel, Franny and Zooey, appeared in 1961. 
>
>    However, friends and visitors to his home have revealed that 
>    his house in New Hampshire has a large safe containing 
>    numerous finished manuscripts. It is thought they all feature 
>    the Glass family, about whom Salinger first wrote in 
>    Franny and Zooey. 
>
>    Speaking for the first time, three people, all of whom have 
>    been inside Salinger's house in the small town of Cornish, 
>    describe "the other books". 
>
>    Jerry Burt, a neighbour, talks of "a huge bank safe" in the house. 
>    "I was in the room when it was open," says Burt. "That's 
>    where he kept his manuscripts. He told me there were about 
>    15 or 16 books finished but that he didn't know if they 
>    would be published." 
>
>    Barry Brown, who was 12 when he befriended Salinger, 
>    speaks of "Jerry [Salinger] hiding all his work in a huge 
>    locked safe. Doesn't it speak to his psyche?" 
>
>    Another friend, Jonathan Schwarz, tells how his girlfriend, 
>    Susan, spent the night at Salinger's house after pretending 
>    that her car had broken down. After eating a meal of his staple 
>    diet, nuts and peas, she too saw the safe and the books. 
>
>    Greg Herriges, one of a band of Salinger pilgrims who visits 
>    Cornish regularly, describes on BBC2's Close Up arts programme, 
>    to be broadcast on Tuesday, how he snatched a brief 
>    conversation with the elusive author. Salinger told him: 
>    "I work every day. I'm still writing, but it cannot be rushed. 
>    It is contact with the public which hinders my writing." 
>
>    Salinger has been an enigmatic figure since he first shot to fame 
>    in 1951 with The Catcher in the Rye, the story of 
>    the disillusioned teenager Holden Caulfield, which 
>    has become a standard school text. 
>
>    Although Salinger wrote regularly in magazines such as 
>    the New Yorker in the 1950s and early 1960s and 
>    brought out two other anthologies of short stories, 
>    it had been assumed that he had dried up. 
>
>    Further evidence that Salinger has written many books 
>    comes from Ian Hamilton, the poet and writer, who 
>    was thwarted from writing a biography of Salinger 
>    in 1986 after the author initiated legal action. 
>
>    "I'm pretty sure Salinger has been continuing with 
>    the Glass saga ever since," Hamilton told The Sunday Times. 
>
>    According to Joyce Maynard, who wrote her memoirs 
>    At Home in the World last year, which included chapters 
>    on her 12 months living with the author as 
>    an 18-year-old in the early 1970s, Salinger had 
>    written "a couple" more books about the Glass family 
>    by then. 
>
>    Phyllis Westbery, Salinger's agent at Harold Ober 
>    Associates in New York, would not comment on 
>    whether there were any unpublished books. However, 
>    Westbery did say that she spoke to Salinger on a 
>    "very regular basis" about what he was doing. 
>
>    To those who have seen him, Salinger comes across 
>    as a person who has for most of his adult life been 
>    emotionally stuck in his late teens. Nearly all his published 
>    writings are about young people. 
>
>    Salinger, who is 80, does not seem to have had 
>    an obviously unhappy childhood. He is described 
>    by friends who knew him at the time as 
>    "confident and even swaggering". But when he was 
>    25 he seems to have had a nervous breakdown 
>    while serving in the US army at the end of 
>    the second world war in Europe. 
>
>    He was also bitterly hurt when his girlfriend, 
>    Oona O'Neill, who was then only 16, left him 
>    for Charlie Chaplin. He was later upset 
>    professionally by a review by Mary McCarthy 
>    of Franny and Zooey. "I think it was that which 
>    led to his withdrawal," said Hamilton. 
>
>    Throughout his life Salinger has befriended 
>    women younger - often much younger - than himself. 
>    He married Claire Douglas, aged 19, when he was 35 
>    in 1954. They had two children and then divorced 
>    in 1967. 
>
>    For the past 20 years he has lived with a woman called 
>    Colleen O'Neill. 
>
>    Salinger leads an ascetic life. He calls himself 
>    a "failed Zen Buddhist", walks about in a blue mechanic's 
>    uniform and, when he does go to local restaurants, 
>    eats in the kitchen to avoid people. 
>
>    If Salinger has written all these other books, 
>    what will happen to them after his death? 
>    Maynard and Hamilton believe the author has decided. 
>    They could be destroyed or they could be published 
>    as the most fascinating posthumous collection. 
>
>
>

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Let me get my facts straight...

This article appeared in the London Sunday Times, on Sunday, 21 March 1999... ? The author was Richard Brooks? I'm in PA, so I'm trying to get my information correct if I'm going to us this as a source for my research paper. (For the record, my notes and bibliography were due YESTERDAY, but, as a hopeless procrastinator, I'm not EVEN close to being finished with anything even remotely related to this paper.)

Thanks for posting this and helping out a lazy student!!!

-- Meredith Kay


>From: Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie>
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: Bananafish <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
>Subject: Sunday Times article
>Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 17:02:13 +0000
>
> The following appeared in this morning's
> Sunday Times (London). It seems to be
> in preparation for the television programme
> on Tuesday evening.
>
> I've copied this from the Sunday Times web page.
> And, of course, take no responsibility for any
> righteous indignation aroused in the hearts of
> loyal minions.
>
> Scottie B.
> _____________________________________
>
> J D Salinger 'has 15 new books in safe'
> by Richard Brooks
> Arts Editor
>
> J D SALINGER, one of the world's most influential and
> reclusive authors, has written at least 15 books since his last
> work was published more than 30 years ago, according to
> friends. He is keeping them in a huge vault at his home.
> The American author of The Catcher in the Rye has shunned
> the public eye since the mid-1960s and has not published
> a word since a book of short stories in 1965. His second
> and last published novel, Franny and Zooey, appeared in 1961.
>
> However, friends and visitors to his home have revealed that
> his house in New Hampshire has a large safe containing
> numerous finished manuscripts. It is thought they all feature
> the Glass family, about whom Salinger first wrote in
> Franny and Zooey.
>
> Speaking for the first time, three people, all of whom have
> been inside Salinger's house in the small town of Cornish,
> describe "the other books".
>
> Jerry Burt, a neighbour, talks of "a huge bank safe" in the house.
> "I was in the room when it was open," says Burt. "That's
> where he kept his manuscripts. He told me there were about
> 15 or 16 books finished but that he didn't know if they
> would be published."
>
> Barry Brown, who was 12 when he befriended Salinger,
> speaks of "Jerry [Salinger] hiding all his work in a huge
> locked safe. Doesn't it speak to his psyche?"
>
> Another friend, Jonathan Schwarz, tells how his girlfriend,
> Susan, spent the night at Salinger's house after pretending
> that her car had broken down. After eating a meal of his staple
> diet, nuts and peas, she too saw the safe and the books.
>
> Greg Herriges, one of a band of Salinger pilgrims who visits
> Cornish regularly, describes on BBC2's Close Up arts programme,
> to be broadcast on Tuesday, how he snatched a brief
> conversation with the elusive author. Salinger told him:
> "I work every day. I'm still writing, but it cannot be rushed.
> It is contact with the public which hinders my writing."
>
> Salinger has been an enigmatic figure since he first shot to fame
> in 1951 with The Catcher in the Rye, the story of
> the disillusioned teenager Holden Caulfield, which
> has become a standard school text.
>
> Although Salinger wrote regularly in magazines such as
> the New Yorker in the 1950s and early 1960s and
> brought out two other anthologies of short stories,
> it had been assumed that he had dried up.
>
> Further evidence that Salinger has written many books
> comes from Ian Hamilton, the poet and writer, who
> was thwarted from writing a biography of Salinger
> in 1986 after the author initiated legal action.
>
> "I'm pretty sure Salinger has been continuing with
> the Glass saga ever since," Hamilton told The Sunday Times.
>
> According to Joyce Maynard, who wrote her memoirs
> At Home in the World last year, which included chapters
> on her 12 months living with the author as
> an 18-year-old in the early 1970s, Salinger had
> written "a couple" more books about the Glass family
> by then.
>
> Phyllis Westbery, Salinger's agent at Harold Ober
> Associates in New York, would not comment on
> whether there were any unpublished books. However,
> Westbery did say that she spoke to Salinger on a
> "very regular basis" about what he was doing.
>
> To those who have seen him, Salinger comes across
> as a person who has for most of his adult life been
> emotionally stuck in his late teens. Nearly all his published
> writings are about young people.
>
> Salinger, who is 80, does not seem to have had
> an obviously unhappy childhood. He is described
> by friends who knew him at the time as
> "confident and even swaggering". But when he was
> 25 he seems to have had a nervous breakdown
> while serving in the US army at the end of
> the second world war in Europe.
>
> He was also bitterly hurt when his girlfriend,
> Oona O'Neill, who was then only 16, left him
> for Charlie Chaplin. He was later upset
> professionally by a review by Mary McCarthy
> of Franny and Zooey. "I think it was that which
> led to his withdrawal," said Hamilton.
>
> Throughout his life Salinger has befriended
> women younger - often much younger - than himself.
> He married Claire Douglas, aged 19, when he was 35
> in 1954. They had two children and then divorced
> in 1967.
>
> For the past 20 years he has lived with a woman called
> Colleen O'Neill.
>
> Salinger leads an ascetic life. He calls himself
> a "failed Zen Buddhist", walks about in a blue mechanic's
> uniform and, when he does go to local restaurants,
> eats in the kitchen to avoid people.
>
> If Salinger has written all these other books,
> what will happen to them after his death?
> Maynard and Hamilton believe the author has decided.
> They could be destroyed or they could be published
> as the most fascinating posthumous collection.
>
>
>


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