Salinger Letters on Exhibit

Photo courtesy of The Morgan Library and Museum

There has been quite a bit of news lately about the life of J.D. Salinger, author of "The Catcher in the Rye," especially with the recent release of "Salinger," a documentary by Shane Salerno.

Salinger was a letter writer, and some of those letters are on display at The Morgan Library and Museum in New York.

According to information from The Morgan between 1941 and 1943, Salinger sent nine letters and postcards to Marjorie Sheard, an aspiring Canadian writer. The collection of documents was acquired by the Morgan in April and sheds light on Salinger’s writing and the authors that influenced him in the early stages of his career.

The museum reports that a highlight among the letters is one in which the young author writes to Ms. Sheard about "the first Holden story” about a “prep school kid on his Christmas vacation.”

The Morgan will display the complete correspondence in a show titled “Lose not heart,” the first public presentation of these revealing letters, on view from Sept. 10, 2013 to Jan. 12, 2014.