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Article: Salinger is right: Privacy is privacy.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- June 7, 1999
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In the Hell Hath No Fury section at Sotheby's auction house, one finds letters from J.D. Salinger to Joyce Maynard, paramour turned privacy pimp.
Salinger's first published novel, ``The Catcher in the Rye'' is regarded as a literary classic. Published by Little, Brown & Co. in 1951, ``Catcher'' was hailed by the New York Times as ``an unusually brilliant first novel.'' It sold for $3.
On or about June 22, 14 Salinger letters to Maynard could bring in $80,000 at Sotheby's. (That figure does not include the pieces of silver for Maynard's treachery.)
None of the money from the Sotheby's sale will go to Salinger, though the writings are his ...