hominidmedia: people: j.d. salinger


media introduction:

image credit: "J.D. Salinger with typewriter in Normandy France, 1944." New York: New York Public Library and J.D. Salinger Literary Trust, 1944. [nypl.org].

Shane Salerno, Buddy Squires, Deborah Randall, Craig Fanning. Salinger. United States: The Weinstein Company, 2013. Trailer hosted by [.youtube].

This is a highly dramatized documentary or a moderately dramatic docudrama.

standard narrative:

Henry A. Grunwald (ed.) Salinger: A Critical and Personal Portrait. New York: Harper, 1962. ix.

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Oscar Handlin. America: A History. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. 1061-1063.

Handlin on Salinger
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Todd Gitlin. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage. New York: Bantam, 1993. (First published, 1987.) 28-30.

Gitlin on Salinger:
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Eugene K. Garber. "JD Salinger" The World Book Encyclopedia. USA: World Book Inc., 1988.

Garber on Salinger:
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Eric Foner. Give Me Liberty! An American History. WW Norton: Second Seagull Ed., 2009. 896-898. (first published: 2005).

Foner on Salinger:
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primary sources:

Salinger, JD., "De Deumier-Smith's Blue Period" 1951.

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Salinger, JD., "For Esmé - with Love and Squalor" The New Yorker, 8 April 1950, 28-36.

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Salinger, JD., The Catcher in the Rye New York: Little, Brown and Co., 1951.

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