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Salinger is actually an excellent example of how the current copyright laws can be a disincentive to creating or publishing new works. Catcher in the Rye continues to sell well to this day (In part I imagine because it is used in so many High School lit classes) and as a result, Salinger has seen little need to publish anything else for income. Apparently he continued writing the regularly during the last 40 years of his life and even marked manuscripts that he felt were ready to be published. I suspect that we will probably see some new Salinger works published in the next few years. That being said, if copyright was still under the 28 year maximum that was specified in the U.S. Constitution, he might have published other works years ago.
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Bill
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