Many fans of Catcher in the Rye would have liked to have seen more from author J.D. Salinger. Much like Harper Lee and To Kill A Mockingbird, there just isn’t much out there by these reclusive authors.
However, Salinger’s son and widow are “going as fast as we freaking can” to gather his work and get it out to the public. Salinger died in 2010 and his son Matt and widow, Colleen O’Neill want to get his work out there. Salinger’s last piece was a short story in The New Yorker in 1965.
Despite not publishing, the family says that Salinger continued to write furiously long after Holden Caulfield became a classic literary character.
There is so much material that the family has been working on it since 2011 and it still isn’t ready. There is 50 years worth of work to sift through.
Matt Salinger said his father wanted him to get the material published, but there is of course, the question of if Salinger has so much to say and write, why didn’t he put it out?
In much the same way Lee’s follow up book was published after her death — and many feel, against her wishes — Salinger’s stories will probably endure the same conversation.
The Salinger family said it hoped to have the job done in less than a decade, so a target might be 2021. There should be plenty of interest.
Source: The Guardian.