Salinger / David Shields and Shane Salerno.

Includes bibliographical references.

We're going to start the war from right here -- Slight rebellion off Park Avenue -- Six-feet-two of muscle and typewriter ribbon in a foxhole -- Inverted forest -- Dead men in winter -- Still burning -- Victim and perpetrator -- Measuring up -- The origin of EsmeÌ -- Is the kid in this book crazy -- We can still run away -- Follow the bullet: Nine stories -- His long dark night -- A terrible, terrible fall -- Seymour's second suicide -- Dear Miss Maynard -- Dear Mr. Salinger -- Assassins -- A private citizen -- A million miles away in his tower -- Jerome David Salinger: a conclusion -- Secrets -- Fiction in chronological order of publication -- Lost stories, uncollected stories, and published letters -- The Glass family.

Draws on extensive research and exclusive interviews to share previously undisclosed aspects of the enigmatic writer's life, from his private relationships and service in World War II to his legal concerns and innermost secrets.