The author of The Catcher in the Rye is dead. Obit Magazine has yet to post their take, but the journalist Hillel Italie gives us a bit of nastiness in his AP story.
Salinger’s alleged adoration of children apparently did not extend to his own. In 2000, daughter Margaret Salinger’s “Dreamcatcher” portrayed the writer as an unpleasant recluse who drank his own urine and spoke in tongues.
Ms. Salinger said she wrote the book because she was “absolutely determined not to repeat with my son what had been done with me.”
Have mercy.
I wonder if this opens a niche in the “reclusive authors” category.
I believe it does…but hopefully not with the same …uhhhh….habits?
You know, it’s one thing for Katherine Hepburn to shun society. It’s another thing for Salinger to do it. Salinger probably needed God-following people in his life to pull his head out of his rear–to put it delicately.