... has also published 35 short stories including A Perfect Day for Bananafish (1963), which first appeared in The New Yorker and introduced readers to Seymour Glass, a character who appeared in Franny and Zooey (1961) Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (both 1963) and who eventually committed suicide. Other short stories that the author has chosen to publish are collected ... his early works ("I"m crazy" and "Slight Rebellion of Madison") are in fact early versions of some of the episodes in Catcher, and reveal Salinger in process or discovering him major the...

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