This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_64ac71cb_3d0a7f8b$7b716b4b Content-type: text/plain 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. > > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------=_NextPart_000_64ac71cb_3d0a7f8b$7b716b4b Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_55a846e3_3d0a7f8b$7b716b4b" ------=_NextPart_001_55a846e3_3d0a7f8b$7b716b4b Content-type: text/html
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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. > > > |