Writing

unflattering memoir about her father.

In it, among many issues she explores involving his personality and writing process, she brings up how she believes growing up Jewish may have affected him in an era when, as just one example of national anti-semitism, medical schools restricted Jewish admissions.

Ironically, Salinger was shortly married to a former Nazi party member he had arrested during the war.

With digital publication will come renewed scrutiny of Salinger’s personal history, which I hope will be more edifying than salacious and condemning,

His son’s decision will result in a gift to literature, regardless how the writing or Salinger as a man might be judged.

He lived to be 91; his last story, written in 1928, was published in the New Yorker in 1965.