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She chose not to comment to the press on the occasion of Salinger s death.
In the years since the publication of At Home in the World, other women have come forward detailing correspondence they had with Salinger when they were young, causing a reassessment of earlier charges that Maynard had unfairly betrayed the writer s privacy.
In an example of metafiction, he named his protagonist in Shoeless Joe " Ray Kinsella ", a character from Salinger s uncollected story A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All .” Salinger had also used the surname shared by writer and protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye ( Holden Caulfield's friend Richard Kinsella ).
Salinger s rejection of traditional middle-class values signaled the first widely recognized public stand against the cultural conformist pressure.
At Maxwell s urging, Salinger embarked upon a major reworking of the piece, adding the opening section with Muriel s character, and crafting the material to provide insights into Seymour s tragic demise.
The effort was met with immediate acclaim, and according to Salinger biographer Paul Alexander, it was " the story that would permanently change his standing in the literary community .” Salinger s decision to collaborate with Maxwell and The New Yorker staff in developing the story marked a major advance in his career and led to his entry into that echelon of elite writers at the journal.
Children figure prominently in Salinger s works.
Slawenski points out that though we may recognize Salinger in Sergeant X s character, veterans of the times recognized themselves .”
" The Laughing Man " is a short story by J. D. Salinger, published originally in The New Yorker on March 19, 1949 ; and also in Salinger s short story collection Nine Stories.

Salinger and narrator
Salinger had served as a non-commissioned officer of intelligence services at the European front – the narrator Sergeant X is suspiciously like Salinger himself ”.
Ross departed from the rules regarding her private life in personal comments in The Talk of the Town following the death of J. D. Salinger, making her position as narrator clear and including information about her long friendship with Salinger and photographs of Salinger and his family with her family, including her adopted son, Erik.
Why the couple is distraught is ambiguous, as their conversation occurs away from the narrator ; in any case, Salinger does not explicitly tell the reader.

Salinger and Chief
* In the JD Salinger short story " The Laughing Man ", the Chief is described as having " the most photogenic features of Buck Jones, Ken Maynard, and Tom Mix.

Salinger and ever
Salinger, " Collier's " fiction editor, Knox Burger, stated in 1948 that " Ocean Full of Bowling Balls " " contains the greatest letter home from camp ever composed by man or boy .".

Salinger and more
Asked to elaborate, Pierre Salinger, White House press secretary, replied, `` I would say it's got to go thru several more drafts ''.
Moreover, studies based on more recent data tend to find only a weak relationship or no relationship between the structural variables and performance ( Salinger 1984 ; Kwoka and Ravenscraft 1985 ).
The short story was immediately popular with readers ; less than two weeks after its publication, on April 20, Salinger " had already gotten more letters about For Esmé than he had for any story he had published.
The story is more than merely a personal recollection ; rather, it is an effort to offer hope and healing – a healing of which Salinger himself partook.
* In issue # 4 of the 1990-1991 Foolkiller limited series, Merle Singer explains that Salinger killed many more fools than is publicly known.
" A more common version of the legend claims that Salinger was taken by Joan Caulfield upon first seeing her in a modeling photo or a publicity still or an acting performance.

Salinger and Laughing
Salinger, " The Laughing Man ," and to base the logo on that.

Salinger and Man
* A Gifted Man as Dr. Elizabeth Salinger ( 1 episode, 2011 )
Salinger, Dubliners by James Joyce, Born of Man and Woman by Richard Matheson, Night Shift by Stephen King, Rock Springs by Richard Ford, and Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling.

Salinger and him
Robert called Pierre Salinger and Kenneth O ' Donnell to assist him.
Realizing the ramifications of counting Texas votes as their own, Salinger asked him whether he was considering a Kennedy-Johnson ticket, and Robert replied, yes.
Robert called Pierre Salinger and Kenneth O ' Donnell to assist him.
Realizing the ramifications of counting Texas votes as their own, Salinger asked him whether he was considering a Kennedy-Johnson ticket, and Robert replied, yes.
Rivera publicly criticized Arledge's journalistic integrity, claiming that Arledge's friendship with the Kennedy family ( for example, Pierre Salinger, a former Kennedy aide, worked for ABC News at the time ) had caused him to spike the story ; as a result, Rivera was fired.
( Some years earlier, Salinger had actually referenced Casablanca in his 1944 short story " Both Parties Concerned "; one of its characters, upon learning his wife has left him, re-enacts the " Play it, Sam " scene from the film with an imaginary pianist.
However, Rozelle and then-White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger had been classmates at the University of San Francisco years before, and Rozelle had consulted with him.
Frankenheimer said that Pierre Salinger conveyed to him President Kennedy's wish that the film be made, " these were the days of General Walker " and, though the Pentagon did not want the film made, the president would conveniently arrange to visit Hyannis Port for a weekend when the film needed to shoot outside the White House.
Salinger in particular, adored him, and dedicated Franny and Zooey to Shawn.
According to his press secretary, Pierre Salinger, Kennedy asked him to purchase 1, 200 Cuban cigars for his future use immediately before the extended embargo was to come into effect.
Salinger, in his 1964 essay " A Salute to Whit Burnett " ( the editor of Story Magazine, Burnett was Salinger's mentor whose class in short story writing at Columbia University he attended in 1939 and who was the first professional to publish one of his stories ), said that it was Burnett's use of " That Evening Son Gone Done " in the class that taught him the importance of the author's relationship with his " silent reader ".
Rory, feeling responsible for Salinger's breakdown and crimes, tried to help the Defenders arrest Salinger, by persuading him that he could join them as a superhero.
Salinger reappeared, studying at Empire State University, where teaching assistant Peter Parker ( Spider-Man ) befriended him, then stopped him in the midst of another killing spree.
Salinger directs Gerhardt to an old confidant who provides him with the Foolkiller costume and " purification gun ".
Issue 225 of Amazing Spider-Man supports the premise that Salinger made it improbable that anyone would connect his murder of the FBI agents to him.

Salinger and book
A few weeks after Margaret's book was published, Salinger wrote a letter to The New York Observer, disparaging his sister's " gothic tales of our supposed childhood.
The idea of a dream catcher was used by Margaret Salinger, daughter of J. D. Salinger, in her book of memoirs about her father, Dream Catcher: A Memoir.
DeLillo cited the published Salinger photograph and a photograph of a Unification Church Blessing ceremony he came across as inspiration for the book, telling Vince Passaro
The book traces the Adamic theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue, Lewis exposes its continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow.

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