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J. D. SALINGER

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PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN Literary Masters, Vol. 16: J. D. Salinger, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Burnett, Whit, and Martha Foley. Bruccoli Clark Layman Archives.

Contents page, Story (March-April 1940). Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.

Contents page, Story (November-December 1944). Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.

Cover of Signet paperback edition of J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. New York: New American Library, 1953. Bruccoli Clark Layman Archives.

Cover of With Love and Squalor: 14 Writers Respond to the Work of J. D. Salinger, edited by Kip Kotzen and Thomas Beller. New York: Broadway Books, 2001. Bruccoli Clark Layman Archives.

Dust jacket for first edition of J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951. Bruccoli Clark Layman Archives.

Illustration by A. L. Kortner for J. D. Salinger’s “The Stranger.” Collier’s, 116 (1 December 1945): 18. Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.

Illustration by B. Kimberly Prins for J. D. Salinger’s “Last Day of the Last Furlough.” Saturday Evening Post, 217 (15 July 1944): 26. Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.

Illustration by Graham Kaye for J. D. Salinger’s “Soft-Boiled Sergeant.” Saturday Evening Post, 216 (15 April 1944): 18. Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.

Illustration by Warren Baumgartner for J. D. Salinger’s “Personal Notes on an Infantryman.” Collier’s, 110 (12 December 1942): 96. Bruccoli Clark Layman Archives.

Maxwell, William. Dust jacket photo by James Hamilton. William Maxwell. Billie Dyer and Other Stones. New York: Knopf, 1992. Richland County Public Library, Columbia, South Carolina.

Montage of letters and postcards from J. D. Salinger to Margaret Salinger. Sotheby auction catalogue, 12 December 2001. Lot 223A. Bruccoli Clark Layman Archives.

Montage of letters from J. D. Salinger to Elizabeth Murray, with typescripts. Seventy: The World of Books, Arts, and Letters, circa 1455-1968. New York: House of El Dieff, 1969. Lot 78. Bruccoli Clark Layman Archives.

Salinger, J. D., at age thirty-one. Margaret Salinger. Dream Catcher: A Memoir. New York: Washington Square Press, 2000. Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.

Salinger, J. D., Claire Douglas Salinger, and Margaret Salinger. Dream Catcher: A Memoir.

Salinger, J. D., in army uniform. Dream Catcher: A Memoir.

Salinger, Margaret, on J. D. Salinger’s shoulders. Dream Catcher: A Memoir.

Salinger, Margaret, sitting on J. D. Salinger’s lap. Margaret Salinger. Dream Catcher: A Memoir.

Title page of first edition of J. D. Salinger’s Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963. Bruccoli Clark Layman Archives.