The authors conclude with the "conditions" that shaped his life.
- His anatomy: one testicle.
- The love of his life, whom he lost: Oona O'Neill (daughter of Eugene O'Neill; Oona married Charlie Chaplin)
- War: it is hard to say what would have affected him most -- losing Oona or what he saw/endured in WWII (Utah Beach on D-Day; Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge; first to liberate concentration camps)
- Religion: Vedanta
- Cornish: reclusive home in New Hampshire
- Wives: three (?)
- Children: two -- Margaret and Matthew
- Girls: creepy
- Seclusion: not particularly unusual for authors; an art form
- Detachment: he destroyed himself, and many others along the way
- Born in 1919
- Catholic/Jewish
- Oona O'Neill
- On D-Day: about 25 years old; carried his typewriter everywhere he went
- Off to war; loses Oona to Charlie Chaplin
- Always wanted to be a writer; had the first six chapters of Catcher in the Rye when he landed on Utah
- Met Hemingway three times during the war; first time during the liberation of Paris
- Realizes he is having a nervous breakdown prior to discharge from army
- Two weeks in civilian mental health hospital, Nuremberg
- Honorable discharge; de-nazification of Germany
- Marries Sylvia, German, physician, probably Gestapo/Nazi,
- Divorced
- The origin of Esme; child-love Jean Miller, Florida
- Child love: Shirley Blaney
- The New Yorker, editor William Shawn, 1952 - 1987; "father figure"?
- Wife Claire Douglas; two children; divorced
- Joyce Maynard
- Colleen O'Neill, third wife, nursing student when married; 40 years his junior, married in early 1980s
- Two literary families: Glass and Holden
- Last short story published: Hapworth -- considered awful
- After Hapworth, The New Yorker never published anything by Salinger again
- Died 2010
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