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...best-known passages in The Catcher in the Rye is Holden Caulfield's comment: "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it." Fans of Author Salinger are an especially frustrated lot; there is no calling him up "whenever you felt like it." He is the most private of public authors...
...Before that, I chased cops for Providence and Boston papers." He wrote one of Time's most-talked-about articles last year, coining the phrase and describing the practice of publishing "non-books." He was at Oberlin College when The Catcher in the Rye came out, "and liked it enormously, but did not identify with Holden Caulfield, because at the time I thought I was Eugene Gant." (Translation for the Holden Caulfield set: Skow was then hung on Tom Wolfe...
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...bookstores sold out their first supplies. To a large extent, the excitement is fueled by memories of Salinger's most famous work. For of all the characters set to paper by American authors since the war, only Holden Caulfield, the gallant scatologer of The Catcher in the Rye, has taken flesh permanently, as George F. Babbitt, Jay Gatsby, Lieut. Henry and Eugene Gant took flesh...
From his hermitage in Cornish, N.H., publicity-proscribing Author J. D. (The Catcher in the Rye) Salinger, 42, proclaimed a new declaration of independence. "It is my rather subversive opinion," he wrote for the dustjacket of his forthcoming book, Franny and Zooey, "that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years." With customary obliqueness, Salinger pointedly failed to state what he considered a writer's most valuable property, proceeded to brush off the usual biographical data with the uncandid note: "My wife has asked...