A stream of fiction and stories written by reclusive author j.d. Salinger will be published between 2015 and 2020, according to a new biography about the writer of The Catcher in the Rye, who died in 2010. Some of the books will reportedly revisit beloved Salinger characters, like Holden Caulfield. /p>
The claims come from David Shields and Shane Salerno, co-authors of the Salinger biography, due out next week. A few days later, the homonymous documentary by Salerno will be released (and in January it will be broadcast on PBS).
In her research on Salinger, Shields, and Salerno, she culled information from new and existing interviews with people who knew the author and with book critics and experts on Salinger, who retired from public life and stopped publishing in the 1990s. 1960, but never stopped doing it. writing, according to many accounts.
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And some of that work reportedly features familiar characters like Franny and Zooey Glass, the witty and introspective siblings from the novel Franny and Zooey.
Citing two anonymous sources, the authors say Salinger “left instructions ‘authorizing a specific timeline’ (beginning in 2015 and 2020) for the release of unpublished works, including five new Glass family stories; a novel based on his relationship with his first wife, Sylvia Welter, a German whom he married shortly after World War II; a novel in the form of diary entries from a counterintelligence officer during the war; a “handbook” full of stories about Vedanta Religious Philosophy,” according to New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani.
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Also Rumored To Be Available: “The Last And Greatest Of Peter Pans”, An Update On The Life Of Holden Caulfield And His Family. That’s from a separate Times report, which notes that Salinger’s literary legacy would greatly expand with upcoming releases, if the new claims are true.
If claims of a planned new work by Salinger are true, it would represent the first substantial publication of his fiction since the story “Hapworth 16, 1924” appeared in the New Yorker.
ap warns:
“but there is no consensus on what he was writing and no physical evidence of what salinger reportedly had hidden in a safe at his home in cornish, n.h. the salinger estate, managed in part by matt salinger And Salinger’s widow, Colleen O’Neill, has remained silent on the matter since the author’s death in January 2010. The two did not cooperate with Salerno and Shields.”
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The pair have also declined to comment on early reports of Salinger’s upcoming fiction, as have representatives from Little, Brown and Company, publishers of The Catcher in the Rye.
After Salinger settled in a small New Hampshire town, he rarely gave an account of his activities or the reasons he rejected a more public life.
One of the few Salinger interviews was conducted in 1980 by reporter Betty Eppes.
“He said, ‘I refuse to publish,'” eppes told npr in 1997, “‘There is a wonderful peace in not publishing,’ he said. ‘There is a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. Yeah you don’t post, they don’t know what you’re doing. you can keep it to yourself.'”
As for the merits of the new biography, the AP, which purchased an advance copy of Salinger, likens it to an oral history. Writing at the time, Kakutani calls it “a relaxed internet-age narrative with diminished authorial responsibility.”
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On a final note, we’ll remind you that the regular two-way “book news” feature is on a late summer holiday. In April, NPR’s Annalisa Quinn told us about nine letters Salinger wrote to a woman in the 1940s, in which she mentions her recently sent manuscripts.