...And so I think we might find fragments of things, much in the way “The Original of Laura” was found.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/28/jd-salinger-dies-catcher-rye
In 1986, Salinger won an injunction against the publication of a collection of his letters. During the case, which went to the US supreme court, he was asked what he had been working on for the previous 20 years. "Just a work of fiction," he said. "That's all. That's the only description I can really give it … It's almost impossible to define. I work with characters, and as they develop, I just go on from there."
He submitted a number of stories to the New Yorker which were rejected, including one called I Went to School With Adolf Hitler.
My own favourite tribute comes from the always-excellent Onion... "In this big dramatic production that didn't do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author JD Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud … 'There will never be another voice like his.' Which is exactly the lousy kind of goddamn thing that people say, because really it could mean lots of things, or nothing at all even, and it's just a perfect example of why you should never tell anybody anything."
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/s/j_d_salinger/index.html
Ms. Salinger said her father was pathologically self-centered, and that nothing could interrupt his work, which he likened to a quest for enlightenment. Ms. Salinger said her father was also abusive to his second wife and her mother, Claire Douglas, keeping her a virtual prisoner in his house in Cornish, N.H., refusing to allow her to see friends and family.
Mr. Salinger pursued Scientology, homeopathy and Christian Science, according to the daughter. He also drank urine, and sat in a Reichian orgone box, Ms. Salinger wrote. He spoke in tongues, fasted until he turned greenish and as an older man had pen pal relationships with teenage girls.
Ms. Douglas told her daughter that he demanded elaborate meals and that the sheets had to be laundered twice weekly, though there was no heat or hot water.
During World War II he was a counterintelligence agent. In 1945 in Germany he was hospitalized for ''battle fatigue.''
In her memoir, Ms. Salinger wrote that her father arrested a young Nazi Party functionary, Sylvia, then married her. The marriage was brief, and forever after he referred to her as Saliva.
Ms. Salinger said her father was pathologically self-centered, and that nothing could interrupt his work, which he likened to a quest for enlightenment. Ms. Salinger said her father was also abusive to his second wife and her mother, Claire Douglas, keeping her a virtual prisoner in his house in Cornish, N.H., refusing to allow her to see friends and family.
Mr. Salinger pursued Scientology, homeopathy and Christian Science, according to the daughter. He also drank urine, and sat in a Reichian orgone box, Ms. Salinger wrote. He spoke in tongues, fasted until he turned greenish and as an older man had pen pal relationships with teenage girls.
Ms. Douglas told her daughter that he demanded elaborate meals and that the sheets had to be laundered twice weekly, though there was no heat or hot water.
During World War II he was a counterintelligence agent. In 1945 in Germany he was hospitalized for ''battle fatigue.''
In her memoir, Ms. Salinger wrote that her father arrested a young Nazi Party functionary, Sylvia, then married her. The marriage was brief, and forever after he referred to her as Saliva.
