Pasha, Help! I have had an overdose of Maynard. I saw the site--I see now why b-fishers aren't interested in tossing the subject around. In my post, I really meant I want to know all I can about Salinger--I only want to know what Maynard has to say about him. I'm not particularly interested in her life. To be honest, I skipped all the parts of her book that weren't about him! And of course, even then, I knew better than to believe all i read. Still, this was the first time I could imagine jds as a three dimensional figure--eating nuts, waltzing to lawrence welk, walking his dog. But the whole maynard plot got a bit monotonous, didn't it? -- M.E. Pierce Dept. of English/ SFASU http://titan.sfasu.edu/~f_pierceme "and gladly would he lerne, and gladly teche." Chaucer