Letters show author JD Salinger not a recluse
BBC News -> Entertainment & Arts
27 January 2011
"Letters written by the late JD Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye, suggest he may not deserve his reputation as a recluse.
When he died last year, he had not been interviewed for 30 years, or published any work since 1965.
However his correspondence with a British friend has come to light, offering a very different picture of his personality."
Addenda
JD Salinger's letters reveal admiration for Tim Henman
The Guardian
Thursday 27 January 2011
"50 letters and four postcards, written by Salinger to Donald Hartog a Londoner whom he met in 1938, reveal that at a time when the Catcher in the Rye author was widely believed to be a near-hermit he was actually enjoying group bus trips to Niagara Falls and regularly indulging a passion for the theatre."
Salinger: a burger-lover in the rye
The Guardian
Thursday 27 January 2011
"As JD Salinger would have recognised, his letters show that Great Writers are not great all the time"
"... Salinger famously went to court in 1986 to block the writer Ian Hamilton from quoting from his letters in Hamilton's proposed biography, JD Salinger: A Writing Life. Salinger knew, in a way that the rest of us have not yet quite absorbed, that far from being the full picture of someone's personality, letters provide an angled glance, as distorting as those funhouse mirrors that you used to find at the end of piers."