Word: zooey
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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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...