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Martin Mesaros _atoswamp — Count me enthralled by Salinger, probably more by his lifestyle choices than by his writing. Sure, The Catcher in the Rye is a classic, a book that caught the angst of the generation of the 1950s after the atomic bomb and during the heyday of fallout shelters and civil defense. But when Salinger made his mark and then retreated into hiding, he established a notoriety that kept his name alive for another generation. Salinger’s career as a published author spanned 25 years. His first story was published in Story magazine in the spring of 1940. Five short stories appeared in theSaturday Evening Post in 1944 and 1945. His last published work, a novella entitled "Hapworth 16, 1924", appeared in The New Yorker on June 19, 1965. Thirty-eight stories by Salinger are indexed and linked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category... . J.D. Salinger: A Life refers to many short stories written by Salinger but never published and eventually lost. Raised in Manhattan, Salinger began writing short stories while in secondary school, and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. Salinger published his first stories in Story magazine which was started by Whit Burnett. In 1948 he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker magazine, which became home to much of his subsequent work. In 1951 Salinger released his novel The Catcher in the Rye, an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Sa... The book relies on correspondence Salinger had with others including Ernest Hemmingway as well as other unauthorized biographies. His significant experience in World War II is extrapolated from letters, references in his published writing and assumptions that his experiences were similar to those of others who served. It portrays a severe several years in the D-Day landing, the Battle of the Bulge and the liberation of Nazi death camps. Evidence strongly suggests that Salinger suffered from post traumatic stress disorder at a time before much was known about this common condition. The insight that Holden finds at the Central Park carousel is the same that finally soothed Salinger’s reaction to the war. After realizing this, they both fell silent – never to speak of it again. It is, therefore, with J.D. Salinger and the Second World War in mind that we should read Holden’s parting words in The Catcher in the Rye: “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” I find these links to Salinger’s thoughts persuasive. What he had to say, he said in his writing, as limited as that is. It is said that Salinger wrote continuously once he moved into his long reclusive phase. We know so little about that phase and have no access to his writings. Several unauthorized biographies by those who knew him and who sought to know him, have not offered any certainty to our knowledge of the interior life of J.D. Salinger. His concluding contacts with the world were legal efforts to obstruct what he saw as the invasion of his privacy. My father is currently ninety one years old, Salinger’s age when he died. Based on my experience with my father who is also a veteran of WW II, I find it easy to imagine Salinger leading a lucid life right up until the time of his death in spite of his isolation. While my father has not become a recluse like Salinger, he has always been closemouthed about his war experience. He has shut that part of his life off from examination by others. Links to sixteen reviews of J.D. Salinger: A Life from newspapers and magazines can be found at http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/book... The book takes you on a guided tour through the four books that Salinger did publish: The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour – An Introduction. With plot summaries and analysis the author attempts to draw lines between Salinger’s life and his writing. I found the effort to learn from Salinger’s art about his personal life to be a legitimate and interesting approach and one that makes a lot of sense. If you believe that Salinger’s novels and short stories are autobiographical, you will accept the validity of this way of viewing Salinger’s fiction. The book is well footnoted when information is drawn from actual documents. Salinger was anything but cooperative during most of his life as far as divulging personal and biographical information. This has forced those interested in writing about him to draw conclusions from less than ideal sources. A daughter and an ex-wife are among those who have tried to capture J.D. Salinger in words. No one so far has been up to meeting the challenge. That is, evidently, how Salinger wants it. Some of his writing from his reclusive years may yet be made public and even published. However, odds of that happening seem to be long. But some of us find enjoyment in the effort to capture this strange and mysterious man. To me, one of the surprising claims of the book is that the magazine and newspaper writers who pursued Salinger with such determination and invaded his privacy so thoroughly actually may have forced him into the seclusion for which he is so well known. They cornered him again and again and his only recourse was to go into his home and shut and lock the door. I have sympathy with that view of the Salinger story. The seclusion begun by his work habits and hardened by the media had evolved into a loneliness that was locked into place by the by the fatalism he embraced. With the publication of his third and fourth books, Salinger seemed to set out into an ongoing series about the Glass family. However, with the publication of Hapworth 16, 1924 in 1965, Salinger’s public output ended abruptly. From 1970 onward, Salinger, with the staunch support of Dorothy Olding, dedicated himself to smothering every disclosure of personal information both past and present. But Salinger’s obsession with his privacy had the opposite effect. Rather than fading from public awareness, he became even more famous for his withdrawal. Intentionally or not, every act he employed to remove himself from the glare of public scrutiny only served to enlarge his legend. GR reviewers find Kenneth Slawenski lacking somewhat in impartiality: First, it is nearly a hagiography, being way too worshipful of its subject. A deferential fan's biography… … What goes along with that is a lack of perspective on the writer, and only so-so insight into Salinger's actual work. It is perhaps a bit too deferential in its dealings with his personal life. Slawenski is the ultimate devoted fan and much he has to say must be taken with that in mind. I think Slawenski's approach to Salinger is for the most part deferential. The attitude throughout is worshipful … Slawenski concludes somewhat heavy handed: By examining the life of J.D. Salinger, with all its sadness and imperfections, together with the messages delivered through his writing, we are charged with the reevaluation of our own lives, an assessment of our own connections, and the weighing of our own integrity. It is tantalizing to think that the conclusions drawn in this book are accurate. But, considering the number of assumptions that are made based on partial information, some inaccuracies must be expected and, I think, accepted. The author made an honest effort to discover the truth. Salinger was certainly not an angel and probably not a devil; he is a human with positive and negative aspects. Due to his admiration of Salinger, Slawenski leans too much in the angel direction. But knowing that about him gives us fair warning as we read this most interesting biography. I easily give the book four stars, at least partially because I had some tears in my eyes at the end of the book. Like Slawenski I am a sucker for J.D. Salinger. And now that I have read the book, I will likely check out the website http://www.deadcaulfields.com/