One of Salinger’s spiritual journals.
"When J.D. Salinger was 18, unpublished and spending long hours at his typewriter, he received an encouraging letter from an admirer. 'I accept your story. Consider it a masterpiece. Check for $1,000 in the mail. Curtis Publishing Co.' It wasn’t really from a publisher — those notices wouldn’t arrive for years. It was from Salinger’s mother, who slipped it under his bedroom door one night when she heard him typing. He kept the note for 73 years, until his death in 2010. The handwritten note is now on display at the New York Public Library, in the first public exhibition from Salinger’s personal archives. ..."
NY Times
“When he was working at his desk, his door was usually closed,” his son Matt Salinger said. “I’d hear the typewriter and I’d sometimes hear him laughing. He had a loud laugh, more of a roar. I never knew exactly what he was working on, I just knew he was working.”
2010 January: J. D. Salinger, 2012 July: The Catcher in the Rye, 2014 September: Franny and Zooey, 2016 July: Nine Stories (1953)
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