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Searching for Seymour. Some of the Glass legend, of course, parallels fact. All the Glass brothers sometimes sound like Salinger?introspective, sensitive, obsessed with words, hating what seems phony, dabbling in mysticism???and incidents in the author's life turn up later in his fiction. Like the Glass children, Salinger was born in New York to a Jewish father and a Christian mother (to soothe her in-laws-to-be, Scotch-Irish Marie Jillich changed her name to Miriam when she married Sol Salinger). But Sol was, and is, a prosperous importer of hams and cheeses, and any connection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: SONNY | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

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