I don't know if the photo is linked to the Hamilton book. Here is
where I found it: A wonderful article by the guy who almost got to publish Hapworth 16, 1924.
In a
more recent article, Ron Rosenbaum tells this heartbreaking story from a letter Salinger wrote to his friend Michael Mitchell, the designer of the original cover for
Catcher in the Rye:
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[...], Salinger is telling his lifelong friend his reaction to an incident famous in Salinger lore: the moment in the ’80s when he was captured by surprise by a New York Post photographer outside the Cornish Post Office. The picture, which the Post ran on its front page, shows Salinger’s absolutely agonized, angry, bitter face. It’s painful to look at, and in the letter he says it made him feel homicidal in his heart and hate humanity. But in a remarkable display of self-effacement he admits to his friend that a local Cornish girl who knew him well from seeing him around town had the temerity and the honesty to tell him, after seeing the Post photo, that, in fact, that was the way he looked almost all the time.
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