![]() “ catcher caught” the headline screamed in triumph. In that instant, the look in Salinger’s eyes was one of such terror that it is a wonder he survived it. He’s a public figure.”) The paper ran a photograph on the front page of a gaunt, sixty-nine-year-old man recoiling, as if anticipating catastrophe. His withdrawal became for journalists a story demanding resolution, intervention, and exposure. For whatever reasons (and one presumes they are not happy reasons), Salinger stopped publishing long ago-his last story, “Hapworth 16, 1924,” appeared in The New Yorker in 1965-and he has lived a reclusive life ever since. ![]() There is no mystery why the Post pursued its prey. If the phrase “take his picture” had any sense of violence or, at least, violation left in it at all, if it still retained the undertone of certain peoples who are convinced that a photographer threatens them with the theft of their souls, then it applied here. In the spring of 1988, the editors of the New York Post sent a pair of photographers to New Hampshire with instructions to find J. D. “Being called a ‘bad citizen’ is a compliment to a novelist,” he says. ![]() ![]() Don DeLillo, photographed by Arnold Newman. ![]()
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