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Salinger's only novel, The Catcher in the Rye, was published in 1951 and gradually achieved a status that made him cringe. For decades the book was a universal rite of passage for adolescents, the manifesto of disenchanted youth. (Sometimes lethally disenchanted: After he killed John Lennon in 1980, Mark David Chapman said he had done it to promote the reading of Salinger's book. A few months later, when he headed out to shoot President Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley Jr. left behind a copy of the book in his hotel room.) But what matters is that even...
...know much about what happened to Salinger during those campaigns. But Ian Hamilton, his beleaguered biographer - beleaguered by Salinger, who successfully sued to keep Hamilton from quoting from his letters - believes that not long afterward, Salinger suffered a nervous breakdown. In Hamilton's book In Search of J.D. Salinger he summarizes a letter Salinger wrote in July 1945 to Hemingway, whom Salinger had met the year before in Paris, telling him that he was being treated at a hospital in Nuremberg for a condition that might lead to a psychiatric discharge from the Army. If that's so, then surely...
...whatever reason, Salinger published just one more book, combining "Carpenters" and "Seymour," in 1963, though in a foreword he promised readers that more Glass stories were under way. Two years later there was that final long story in the New Yorker, called "Hapworth 16, 1924," which purports to be a letter home from summer camp by a wildly precocious 7-year-old Seymour. After that, the signal shuts down. Salinger was occasionally spotted in public but spoke publicly only on rare occasions...
...only detailed picture we have of Salinger in later life. She was prompted to go public, she said, by the discovery that he had carried on the same kind of intimate correspondence with other young women, whom he then dropped just as he did her. One year after her book was published, Maynard put 15 of Salinger's letters to her up for auction. They were bought for $156,500 by software entrepreneur Peter Norton, who returned them to Salinger...
...revelations in the new book Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin (a TIME editor at large), have cast a dark shadow over the public image of both Elizabeth and John. And a forthcoming book, The Politician, by former Edwards aide Andrew Young, is said to be even more reputation-shattering. Is it that John is simply too much of a biohazard to be near right now? Or is Elizabeth just tired of all the tabloid revelations? People sources suggest that even three years after she discovered the affair, Elizabeth never quite found a way to trust John again...