Searching for Salinger

So I was thinking about J.D. Salinger the other day. I don't recall what prompted it. Probably my Catcher in the Rye reference in this post. But I got to thinking that this guy has got to be pretty damn old. To save you the trouble, he turned 89 on January 1, 2008.

I hope my thinking about him, and the fact that he's pretty damn old and certainly must be part of someone's celebrity death pool, doesn't somehow jinx him, thereby causing him to croak.

On the other hand, I also read that according to Joyce Maynard, Salinger continued writing even though he chose not to publish, viewing publication as "a damned interruption." And that Salinger's daughter, Margaret Salinger, described a detailed filing system that J.D. had for his unpublished manuscripts:

"A red mark meant, if I die before I finish my work, publish this 'as is.' Blue meant publish but edit first, and so on."

So, yeah. While I certainly wish J.D. no ill will and have no desire to see him make an appearance in a Celebrity Death post, I sure wouldn't mind a few new tidbits of his work.

Comments

[VE]

Funny, I was thinking about him the other day too. Look up recluse on Wikipedia and you'll find him and many others there. I wonder if he was the inspiration for the movie Finding Forrester.

[HeyJoe]

VE-
I always assumed that he was, the inspiration for Finding Forrester that is.

I'm presently reading Salinger: A Biography by Paul Alexander. So far it's very interesting.

Thanks for posting. Come on back.