Salinger (40 page)

“Lee Eisenberg, a young man . . . where it came from”
: This quote comes from my interview with Gordon Lish.

It was a cold and rainy fall evening . . . hanging the telephone up
: This section about the John Greenberg episode is
based on the November 3, 1974
New York Times
article “J. D. Salinger Speaks About His Silence” by Lacey Fosburgh as well as my interview with Andreas Brown.

“Through the years” . . . “your coming here”
: This episode is based on the November 18, 1974
Newsweek
article by
Bill Roeder.

Then, in that same year, 1975 . . . “let us observe the consequences”
:
Here at the New Yorker
by Brendan Gill, Random House,
1975.

On April 22, 1976 . . . what I’ve done in this case”
: This section is based on the two John Calvin Batchelor articles that appeared in
the
Soho Weekly News
in April 1976 and April 1977 as well as my interviews with Batchelor.

“In 1976, at Exeter . . . become Holden Caulfield”
: This quote comes from my interview with Becky Lish.

The reporter was Michael Clarkson . . . Salinger returned to his television
: These two episodes are based on the
Niagara Falls Review
article “Two Hard-won Encounters with J. D. Salinger” by Michael Clarkson.

In the narrative of Salinger’s life . . . His autograph, that is
: This episode is based on Betty Eppes’s article “What I Did
Last Summer,” including a brief introduction written by the editors, which appeared in
The Paris Review
in the summer of 1981, as well as my interview with George Plimpton.

“Well, in her letter . . . he’s a human being”
: This quote comes from my interview with George
Plimpton.

In December that same year, 1980 . . . from Salinger’s book
: This description of John Lennon’s murder is based on contemporaneous
press accounts as well as
Lennon: The Definitive Biography
by Ray Coleman, McGraw Hill, 1985.

On March 30, 1981 . . .
The Catcher in the Rye: Nancy Reagan
: The Unauthorized Biography
by Kitty Kelley, Simon and Schuster, 1991.

His sense of . . . another or die
: “Case History of All of Us,” by Ernest Jones,
The Nation,
January 1991.

In 1981 . . . “there was a romance”
: The information in these two paragraphs, including the direct quotes, comes from my interview
with Elaine Joyce. A version of these paragraphs was included in my
New York
magazine article “J. D. Salinger’s Women.” The incident at the dinner theater in Florida
was also mentioned in
The Washington Post
on May 15, 1982.

In 1982, another wave . . . end of the discussion
: This passage is based on a conversation between Lawrence Grobel and Truman Capote that was
included in
Conversations with Capote
by Lawrence Grobel (New American Library, 1985) as well as my interview with Grobel.

“Nonsense! . . . become enigmas”
: This quote comes from my interview with Roger Angell.

In January 1985, for example . . . not under any conditions
: This information comes from a letter dated January 20, 1985
written by Salinger to William Faison which was supplied to me by Gloria Murray.

Determined to stop the release . . . “heretofore unpublished letters”
: This paragraph is based on “The Salinger File” by
Phoebe Hoban; court papers from
J. D. Salinger versus Random House and Ian Hamilton;
and my interviews with Robert Callagy, Ian Hamilton, and Phoebe Hoban.

It was two o’clock in the afternoon . . . publishing in the mid-1960s
: This passage about Salinger and the general topics covered in his
deposition is based on an undisclosed source as well as my interview with Robert Callagy.

“Mr. Salinger . . . I just go on from there”
: This excerpt from Salinger’s deposition is reproduced from the June 15, 1987
New York
magazine which contained Phoebe Hoban’s “The Salinger File.” The excerpt was published as a sidebar to Hoban’s article.

In the course of the deposition . . . without his permission
: These two paragraphs come from an undisclosed source.

On November 5 . . . once and for all
: This passage comes from material in
In Search of J. D. Salinger
by Ian Hamilton.

“The whole thing was awful . . . nastier and nastier”
: This quote comes from my interview with Ian Hamilton.

“You know that terrible ordeal . . . such a sweet man”
: This quote comes from my interview with Andreas Brown.

“Here was a man . . . I thought was very sad”
: This quote comes from my interview with Robert Callagy.

In 1987, an incident involving Salinger . . . or so the story went
: The episode was reported by
Spy
magazine whose story was then covered
in
People
magazine on December 28, 1987.

“Salinger fell in love with her . . . escorted off”
: These quotes come from my interview with Ian Hamilton.

When it did . . . no lawsuit was ever filed
: This information comes from my interview with Catherine Oxenberg’s agent, Harry Gold.

One day in April 1988 . . . punch the camera
: A copy of this cover was supplied to me by Richard Johnson.

They left . . . Salinger drove away: This paragraph is based on an account included in the article “Stalking J. D. Salinger
: A Mean
Feat” by Thomas Collins, which appeared in
Newsday
on May 1, 1988, as well as my interview with Paul Adao.

On the evening of July 18, 1989 . . . the novel in his possession
: This passage is based on a
San Diego Union—Tribune
article that
ran on September 25, 1991, a UPI story called “Psychiatrist: Bardo Interested in Other Stalkers” that ran on October 9, 1991, and a UPI story called “Schaeffer Remembered as
Amazing Young Lady’” that ran on July 23, 1991.

For her part, after her
divorce
. . . the treatment of children
: This information was supplied to me by the Alumni Office of Radcliffe
College.

“She was very, very pretty . . . discussed Salinger”
: This quote comes from my interview with George
Plimpton.

“One night, we all . . . with whom I was sitting”
:
Ibid.

After attending Andover . . .
The Sum of Us
:
The information about Matthew Salinger comes from “Father’s Shadow Can’t
Contain Matt Salinger” by Leslie Aldridge Westoff, which ran in
The Chicago Tribune
on July 28, 1988; “Matt Salinger, Into the Spotlight” by David Remnick, which
appeared in
The Washington Post;
and a 1985 article by Patricia O’Haire called “The Son Rises . . . In Public” that ran in the
New York Daily News.

“I see red . . . a public life”
: Salinger gave this quote to Remnick for his
Washington Post
article.

“You have to be careful . . . ‘Don’t ever come back again’”
: This quote comes from my interview with Ethel
Nelson.

“In the end . . . ‘Hapworth’ as a book”
: This quote comes from my interview with Jonathan Schwartz,

Perhaps the most curious . . . semi-divine act
: “The Haunted Life of J. D. Salinger” by Ron Rosenbaum,
Esquire.

When asked . . . “the bread lines of the thirties”
: This quote comes from my interview with Roger Lathbury.

The material in this chapter, including all quotes, are taken from my
New York
article “J. D. Salinger’s Women.”
Much
of the chapter is confirmed by incidents in
At Home in the World
by Joyce Maynard.

“I would not assign . . . unduly assailed”
: This quote comes from my interview with Gordon Lish.

“He began to write . . . that’s different, isn’t it?”
: This quote comes from my interview with Russell Hoban.

On the issue of . . . agents and friends”
: These quotes come from my interview with George Plimpton.

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