“I was a bit nervous”: Ibid.
“Salinger insisted on”: Ibid.
“I foolishly gave an interview”: Roger Lathbury quoted ibid.
“J. D. Salinger, whose life”: David Streitfeld, “Salinger Book to Break Long Silence,” The Washington Post, January 17, 1997.
“This is a book meant for readers”: Roger Lathbury, quoted in David Streitfeld, “Salinger Book to Break Long Silence,” The Washington Post, January 17, 1997.
“Seymour was the one”: Michiko Kakutani, “From Salinger, a New Dash of Mystery,” The New York Times, February 20, 1997.
“My general feeling is anguish”: Roger Lathbury, quoted in Ian Shapiro, “Publisher Roger Lathbury Recalls Book Deal with J. D. Salinger That Went Sour,” The Washington Post, January 29, 2010.
[“Hapworth” is] like the Dead Sea Scrolls”: Ron Rosenbaum, quoted in David Streitfeld, “Salinger Book to Break Long Silence,” The Washington Post, January 20, 1997.
“In the 25 intervening years”: Larissa MacFarquhar, “The Cult of Joyce Maynard,” The New York Times Magazine, September 6, 1998.
“Flatly written, with detail”: Elizabeth Gleick, “Ah, Dull Revenge,” Time, September 7, 1998.
“What we have is two celebrities”: Cynthia Ozick, quoted in Peter Applebome, “Love Letters in the Wind,” The New York Times, May 12, 1999.
“[At Home in the World is] smarmy”: Jonathan Yardley, “Avert Your Eyes! (But Read This First),” The Washington Post, August 24, 1998.
“I wonder, why you are”: Joyce Maynard, posting on her website, quoted in Paul Alexander, “J. D. Salinger’s Women,” New York magazine, February 9, 1998.
“The intensity of the literary catfight”: Juliet Waters, “Critiquing the Catfight over Joyce Maynard’s Biography,” Montreal Mirror, October 8, 1998.
“Although many readers will”: Michiko Kakutani, “More of Her Life, and Love, to Look Back On,” The New York Times, September 8, 1998.
“Defiant, taunting, score-settling”: Lisa Schwarzbaum, review of At Home in the World, by Joyce Maynard, Entertainment Weekly, September 18, 1998.
“It’s easy to make fun”: Katha Pollitt, “With Love and Squalor,” The New York Times Book Review, September 13, 1998.
“Fifteen minutes into our first date”: man quoted in Paul Alexander, “J. D. Salinger’s Women,” New York, February 9, 1998.
“Paul, old friend, No real news”: J. D. Salinger, card to Paul Fitzgerald, December 1998.
“Now, 27 years later”: Cathleen McGuigan, “Whose Life Is It Anyway?” Newsweek, May 24, 1999.
“What of the letter-writer’s”: Joyce Carol Oates, “Words of Love, Priced to Sell,” The New York Times, May 18, 1999.
“I went to Sotheby’s”: Maureen Dowd, “Leech Women in Love!” The New York Times, May 19, 1999.
“Peter Norton, a software millionaire”: Marc Peyser, “Open Season on Salinger,” Newsweek, July 5, 1999.
“My intention is to do”: Peter Norton, quoted in Dinitia Smith, “J. D. Salinger’s Love Letters Sold to Entrepreneur Who Says He Will Return Them,” The New York Times, June 23, 1999.
“The daughter of the obsessively”: Doreen Carvajal, “Salinger’s Daughter Plans to Publish a Memoir,” The New York Times, June 24, 1999.
“It turned out that I”: Margaret Salinger interview with Diane Rehm, The Diane Rehm Show, NPR, September 13, 2000, http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2000-09-13/margaret-salinger-dream-catcher-washington-square-press.
“The Plaza [Hotel in New York]”: Dinitia Smith, “Salinger’s Daughter’s Truths as Mesmerizing as His Fiction,” The New York Times, August 30, 2000.
“Certainly, in my family, [writing]”: Margaret Salinger interview with Diane Rehm, The Diane Rehm Show, NPR, September 13, 2000, http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2000-09-13/margaret-salinger-dream-catcher-washington-square-press.
“She says she wrote it”: Ron Rosenbaum, “The Flight from Fortress Salinger,” New York Times Book Review, October 8, 2000.
“One woman, responding to a”: Thomas Childers, Soldier from the War, Returning, p. 10.
“Of all the private documents”: Benjamin Anastas, “An Unexamined Life,” in With Love and Squalor, ed. Kip Kotzen and Thomas Beller, pp. 150–51.
“It seems to me that”: Sven Birkerts, “Margaret Invades J. D.’s Studio; She Should Have Let Daddy Work,” The Observer, September 18, 2000.
“Dream Catcher is indeed”: Jonathan Yardley, “Punching Salinger Below the Belt,” The Washington Post, September 1, 2000.
“Ladies and gentlemen”: Judith Shulevitz, “Salinger on Trial,” Slate.com, September 21, 2000.
“Gosh, I wish”: Margaret Salinger, CNN.com interview, September 7, 2000, http://www.cnn.com/chat/transcripts/2000/9/7/salinger.
“I really would like to”: Margaret Salinger, speaking in CNN interview with Bill Hemmer, September 7, 2000, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/07/mn.08.html.
“I love my father very much”: Matthew Salinger, quoted in Leslie Aldridge Westoff.
“I would prefer not to speak”: Margaret Salinger, CNN.com interview, September 7, 2000.
“Of course, I can’t say”: Matthew Salinger, letter to The New York Observer, September 25, 2000.
20: A MILLION MILES AWAY IN HIS TOWER
“Salinger had invited me for”: Renata Adler, Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker, June 2000, pp. 98–99.
“Salinger has been seen”: Walter Scott, “Walter Scott’s Personality Parade,” Parade, May 23, 1971.
“He’s just working”: Richard Haitch, The New York Times, February 12, 1978.
“Another friend, Jonathan Schwarz, tells”: Richard Brooks, London Sunday Times, “J. D. Salinger ‘Has 15 New Books in Safe,’ ” March 21, 1999.
“My sister and I”: Matthew Salinger, quoted in David Remnick, “Matt Salinger: Into the Spotlight,” The Washington Post, December 28, 1984.
“At one point during the more than half century”: Lillian Ross, “Bearable,” The New Yorker, February 8, 2010.
“Salinger’s place in Cornish history”: Hillel Italie, “J. D. Salinger’s New Hampshire Hometown Has a Rich Artistic History,” USA Today, February 7, 2010.
“Mr. Salinger was a regular”: Katie Zezima, “J. D. Salinger a Recluse? Well, Not to His Neighbors,” The New York Times, January 31, 2010.
“Salinger would occasionally take in”: John Curran, Associated Press, January 29, 2010.
“He would, until recent years”: Katie Zezima, “J. D. Salinger a Recluse? Well, Not to His Neighbors,” The New York Times, January 31, 2010.
“Gwen Tetirick, one of Salinger’s”: Ashley Blum, “Town Shielded Salinger from Visitors,” The Dartmouth, February 4, 2010.
“We all just say ‘J. D.”: Gwen Tetirick, quoted ibid.
“In order to be accepted”: Annabelle Cone, quoted by Ashley Blum, “Town Shielded Salinger from Visitors,” The Dartmouth, February 4, 2010.
“[Salinger] was like the Batman”: Mike Ackerman, quoted by Katie Zezima, “J. D. Salinger a Recluse? Well, Not to His Neighbors,” The New York Times, January 31, 2010.
“Locals concur that Salinger”: Tom Leonard, “What I Heard at J. D. Salinger’s Doorstep,” The Spectator, April 1, 2009.
“During the last two years”: Ashley Blum, “Town Shielded Salinger from Visitors,” The Dartmouth, February 4, 2010.
“His wife stopped by the last two Saturdays”: Susan J. Boutwell and Alex Hanson, “J. D. Salinger, Recluse of Cornish, Dies” Valley News, January 29, 2010.
“J. D. Salinger, who was thought”: Charles McGrath, “J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91,” The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
“In keeping with his lifelong”: Harold Ober Associates statement, quoted in Charles McGrath, “J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91,” The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
“Cornish is a truly remarkable place”: Colleen O’Neill, quoted in Susan J. Boutwell and Alex Hanson, “J. D
. Salinger, Recluse of Cornish, Dies,” Valley News, January 29, 2010.
“Obviously, we’re prepared”: Doug Hackett, quoted in, Susan J. Boutwell and Alex Hanson, “Salinger’s Neighbors Protected Him,” Rutland Herald, January 29, 2010.
“No one else could make”: Lillian Ross, “Bearable,” The New Yorker, February 8, 2010.
“Matt Salinger answered the doorbell”: John Curran, Associated Press, January 29, 2010.
“J. D. Salinger, who died last month at 91”: Jennifer Schuessler, “Inside the List,” The New York Times Book Review, February 4, 2010.
“There are lots of good”: Adam Gopnik, “What Salinger Means to Me,” All Things Considered, NPR, January 28, 2010.
“Ernest Hemingway famously said”: Rick Moody, “Salinger: An Influential Voice, Even in ‘Silence,’ ” NPR, January 28, 2010.
“Some critics dismissed the easy”: Michiko Kakutani, “Of Teen Angst and an Author’s Alienation,” The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
“Lost along the way, much”: Stephen Metcalf, “Salinger’s Genius: He Was the Great Poet of Post-Traumatic Stress,” Slate, January 28, 2010.
“I have never been bothered by”: Michael Tannenbaum, “Twice Dead,” Johns Hopkins Newsletter, February 4, 2010.
“Everyone is trying to keep”: Annabelle Cone, quoted in Ashley Blum, “Town Shielded Salinger from Visitors,” The Dartmouth, February 4, 2010.
“Depending on one’s point of view”: Charles McGrath, “J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91,” The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
“My own pet theory is”: Dave Eggers, “Remembering Salinger: Dave Eggers,” The New Yorker blog, January 29, 2010, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/01/remembering-salinger-dave-eggers.html.
“Jay McInerney, a young star”: Hillel Italie, Associated Press, February 7, 2010.
“My father on many occasions”: Margaret Salinger, Dream Catcher: A Memoir, p. 47.
“Boy, when you’re dead, they”: J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, July 1951.
“I am in this world”: J. D. Salinger, Harold Ober Associates statement, quoted in Charles McGrath, “J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91,” The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
21: JEROME DAVID SALINGER: A CONCLUSION
“meeting up with those he loves”: Harold Ober Associates statement, quoted in Charles McGrath, “J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91,” The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
“I’m a condition, not a man”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Frances Glassmoyer, August 7, 1944.
“avoid woman and gold”: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, translated by Swami Nikhilananda, Chapter 7, “The Master and Vijay Goswami,” http://www.belurmath.org/gospel.
“in this world”: Harold Ober Associates statement, quoted in Charles McGrath, “J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91,” The New York Times, January 28, 2010.
“little Oona is in love”: J. D. Salinger, letter to Elizabeth Murray, undated.
“just not right for us”: William Maxwell, letter to Dorothy Olding, February 4, 1944.
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