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SALINGER, J.D. Typed Letter Signed “Jerry” with accompanying, unpublished draft for the dust jacket for Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenter and Seymour: An Introduction. The draft was typed by Salinger and also includes a correction in his hand. Dated Sept. 9, 1962. Although Salinger was preparing for the publication of his final anthology about the Glass Family, he writes a letter to his agent mentioning The Catcher in the Rye: "When The Catcher in the Rye was on the fire, Little-Brown paid for some pictures of me taken by a woman named Lotte Jacobi..." The Lotte Jacobi photo was printed large across the back cover of the first two printings of The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger's fame exploded after publication, and he soon found he had become too recognizable to continue living in New York City with any semblance of privacy. By the third printing of Catcher, he had his image removed from the book jacket, yet he was pained by it his whole life, even going so far as asking his…

Franny and Zooey is a book by American author J.D. Salinger which comprises his short story 'Franny' and novella 'Zooey'. The two works were published together as a book in 1961, but 'Franny' came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and 'Zooey' in 1957. The book revolves around the Glass family, particularly Franny and Zooey Glass, two of the youngest members of the family. These works delve into issues of existentialism, spirituality, and the quest for authenticity.