![]() ![]() Youthful, teasing ones to Hemingway, 20 years his senior: “How is your novel coming? Don’t sell it to the movies. Here are the letters! More than enough embedded within 576 pages of exhaustive research to satisfy the most curious Salinger fan. Which is what makes this new biography so spellbinding. ![]() Salinger, was permitted to quote from a Salinger letter. No one, not Maynard, not British critic Ian Hamilton, author of In Search of J.D. court had ruled 10 years earlier that Salinger held the copyright to every word he’d written. ![]() Maynard possessed the physical pieces of paper on which Salinger bared his soul to her, but a U.S. The letters had the power to sweep her off her feet, she recounted in the memoir, but with no excerpts included, the impact flagged. The ones he mailed when she was 18 at Yale and he was 53. Salinger: his love letters, where were they? There was only ever one thing missing from Joyce Maynard’s portrayal of her romance with the acutely private author of The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. ![]()
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