New York Public Library exhibit will show a mix of personal and literary effects, and will run for three months
When the writer JD Salinger died in 2010, his literary agent issued a statement saying that “in keeping with his lifelong, uncompromising desire to protect and defend his privacy, there will be no service”.
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He was a private man who shared his work with millions but his life and non-published thoughts with less than a handful
Photographs from Salinger’s childhood, youth and later life, including from his second world war service in the US army and time as entertainment director on the cruise ship MS Kungsholm in 1941
Correspondence between Salinger’s friends, fellow soldiers and authors and editors including William Shawn, William Maxwell and Ernest Hemingway
Items from the writer’s childhood, including a bowl he made at summer camp when he was about 10 and kept his whole life
Notebooks, passports, honorable discharge papers from the army in which he identified his civilian occupation as “playwright, author”, and personal artifacts such as pipes, eyeglasses and a wrist watch
One of the author’s two typewriters, his film projector and numerous other personal effects
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