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...regular, publishing three pieces in six months. From then on, he never published anywhere else. And with the exception of two pieces in his 1953 volume Nine Stories, he turned his back on the work he had published elsewhere, never allowing it to be collected or anthologized. (See the top 10 magazine covers...
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...Salinger published Franny and Zooey as a single volume. It stayed at the top of the best-seller list for six months. By that time, the cult status of The Catcher in the Rye was fully established. But in some important corners of American letters, there was a backlash forming. In reviews that were on the whole positive, John Updike still found Salinger sentimental, and Alfred Kazin thought he was getting "cute." For years John Cheever told friends that he thought Salinger wouldn't let Hollywood make a movie version of Catcher because Salinger was too old to play Holden...
...long correspondence followed during Maynard's first year at Yale, with the tone on his end evolving from fatherly to something more romantic. At the end of her freshman year, Maynard dropped out of Yale, which meant losing her scholarship, to move in with Salinger in Cornish. (See the top 10 most reclusive celebrities...